@focusdumbass tagged me so now y'all have to see this. Many thanks for the tag! Love the idea!! 💕
Rules: Find 3+ covers/art that reflects your novel’s vibe, then answer the questions
Top hat
So Patrigia is a classic steampunk setting in a fantasy world, and I think the hat represents it quite well. The colours range from orange to brown and the hat has a few gears, which are (at least for me) major aesthetics for a steampunk setting. Also top hats are rad. It could represent one of my major characters, but also the government representatives who control the country in the beginning of the novel, so at least for me it gives a sense of authority.
Metallic flowers on writing
Again, the flowers with the clocks are a major indicator for “hey, that’s steampunk” for me. I like how beautiful they are, so they represent the beauty that’s found all over the world and the gears the flowers are made out of represent the massive clockwork spanning the whole earth that makes all the beauty possible in the first place. The writing which they lie on is Rosalie’s. She’s the designated historian and the book will have many parallels to its own history, the war 300 years ago, and the fallout of it.
Ship sailing through the air
I just really like airships, okay? They give off a sense of tranquility and major parts of the story deal with them – as war machines or homes (the latter is especially true for Shara, Flores and Cino, some major characters as well). So yeah, they’re designed pretty similar to the picture I chose and again, I am very enthusiastic about them.
Style? Photo, airbrushed, anime, etc.?
I know I chose two photos and one drawing, but I’d love it if it were all drawings. And if I had to choose a style, then definitely anime. The first idea that set the whole thing off was, “hey, I watched too many anime and now I want a protagonist with blue hair”. Ironically, none of my protagonists actually have blue hair, but you get the idea.
Colours. No question. Maybe dark and gritty, lots of brown and red, but also in contrast some light and blue. Depending on which colour dominates, they can make you take away different elements of the story. I think the uniform brown makes you think of something dark in themes of story (at least I do), and the light blue and especially the airship represents hope and freedom, so I’d love to go with that.
Details? Anything specific? Gloss, mat, velvet?
Okay yeah, I’d love some gold elements which shine on the cover, maybe the flowers could be a really shiny gold? Other than that, wood would be super awesome for the top hat cover. And A3 size for the airship cover. So, this got very specific very quickly, but I love those ideas and now I wish I’d have the novel finished and published already. Ah, sweet dreams…
Limited Edition/Collector’s Edition?
The flower cover is the normal edition. I would love to have a bright and sweet cover like that because I feel it represents the story I’m trying to write and how it is in my head the best. So yeah, that would be super fitting.
The left top hat cover would be perfect for a collector’s edition + author’s notes on various story elements, why I chose to do what I did, what I think about it. Not in the sense of the author dictating what’s meant in each sentence to the audience, but what I take away from the story for myself – I’d rather not pull another J.K. Rowling.
The right cover would be super fitting for an artbook. Who knows, maybe I’ll share some of my sketches for airships, backgrounds and even characters in the future. I can’t really make face claims since they all look rather unique to their world and I didn’t find anything fitting, but also – hey, try to find a pink haired girl with three very specific scars on her face and one white + one brown eye. So yeah, I’d definitely love to show off my illustrations and give various worldbuilding details.
Woah, this was so much fun! I got a few new ideas I really want to incorporate off of it and I loved thinking so hard about my novel. Thanks for the opportunity!
Tagging: @mvcreates, @bigmoodword, @savannahscripts, @cawolters, @farrradays
