Spindrift cover painting!

[telophase]

Done!



This is, obviously, the cover without all the title, author, and blurb cruft. :)



And man those mountains like to kill me before I figured out that a good pseudo-cell-shading approach worked best. I am so totally not painting mountains for a good long time to come.


ETA: Please do NOT mention things that could be done better about it because I have to get the entire damn book laid out TOMORROW and sent to the printer by WEDNESDAY. When it goes inot a second printing, you can have your say then, but right now I am in an OMG I AM GOING TO EXPLODE state of mind because there are *still* edits to be done and extra stuff to be written for the inside and I cannot do one more thing on this cover.

(The final version is actually slightly brighter - I brightened it upa fter uploading this.)

Comments

[redsnowpenguin.livejournal.com]

woa~ I especially like the shading on the clothing~

Only thing...right now background looks too sharp against the figures, but I assume you will be softening it as you go?

[redsnowpenguin.livejournal.com]

My eyes, they farted...I didn't see the word "done"...

I still think the icecaps are too sharply delineated (makes your eyes go back and forth between them and the figures). Otoh, the ice caps will be the back of the book...

far be it for me to question why they're fighting half-naked on top of icy mountains nudity anytime anywhere any way I can get, that is the motivation of my life~

[telophase.livejournal.com]

(a) the moutnains are on the back of the book
(b) there will be a big blue translucent stripe right across the mountains. :)
(c) this is in RGB, and the cover is printed in CMYK, which has somehow softened them

[redsnowpenguin.livejournal.com]

(c) this is in RGB, ...

...is news to me! :O

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is gorgeous. I'd buy it!

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

Yum! Like the mountains. Only thing is that my eye is drawn to the knife, rather than being focused on the faces. The title might fix that, of course.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Mmm. That's really gorgeous. Pretty, pretty boys plus weapons equal awesome, I'd say. XD

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I actually really like the mountains, and I can't help but stare at them. I'm glad I took a 15 minute break between papers and checked my journal.

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

Lovely! The mountains turned out HOT.

The rest of it did, too. ;D

[croaky.livejournal.com]

Waa.. gorgeous mountains! *__*/

[clockwork-hands.livejournal.com]

The clothing on the paler figure is nice. :D

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

The mountains are fab - very cool and crisp. I love the colours of the clothes too, specially that soft red.

[azure-reverie.livejournal.com]

The mountains look amazing.

[dremiel.livejournal.com]

This is GORGEOUS! Thanks for sharing all the steps along the way. I am pretty ignorant of everything that goes into works before I reach for it and say "Oooh, Pretty!".

[chomiji]

(I'm so ticked ... our office firewall is whimsical about Photobucket - sometimes things load nicely and sometimes they don't. It was a good sport about the drafts and now it's choking on the final, so I may have to wait 'til I get home to see what everyone's talking about.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

If you can get to DeviantArt, it's up there: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/55352230/

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And there's a much smaller version with the title and back-cover blurb on it up on http://www.projectbluerose.com/projects/spindrift/ as of about two minutes ago. :) (click on the inline version to see a somewhat larger version - the colors aren't quite right, but you can get the general idea.)

[chomiji]

Naaaah, that won't work, DeviantArt is out-and-out blocked ... !

And anyway it's all better now: I cleared my cache a couple of times and finally got it to come up (just before I had to go off and "drive" the computer for a speaker who was demo'ing our draft new HR page for an audience ... gee, I love mousing for a crowd ... especially when a pop-up box appears in the middle of the demo telling you to re-boot the computer for updates to take effect, and everyone can see it on not one but two screens ...).

Very nice indeed! And I think that once the banner and text are in place, the "sharpness" of the mountains will not be any sort of issue at all. The skin tones turned out really well also. You're so cool!!!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

This is why I like working in the academic sector ... even though the school is nominally Christian, I could surf hardcore porn on my desktop if I wanted to. Of course if it were found I'd still run the same risk of being booted out of my job for being an idiot, but the possiblity is there, and that makes all the difference. :)

Thank you!

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Wow! I like the mountains!
Great cover!

[herchuckness.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely. I can't wait to read this!

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Holy SHIT. Awesome.