That Ao3 fics dont have covers? Well... What if i do it myself?
Cover for the fic "Vices and Virtues" wrote by @i-write-shakespeare-not-disney
Yesterday i saw another danart for this fic that was imitating a cover, and I said "I want to do one" so my mind went directly to the editorial ilustrator mindset, starting to think of topixs, composition and all that shit. Then it hit me, religious art.
I started looki g for reference and "Saint Terese's extasis", Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1652 was there, the perfect line betwen religion and erotisim, a delicious statue about the "ilumination", it was perfect.
Changing a bit of the pose and voila, there you got it.
I would like to talk about some details, some obvious are the censor cloths that both are wearwing, in their signature colours, also the contraposition of light and dark colours, representi g the idea of purity, even in Jabber is an Angel. Jabber is an angel because in the fic Zanka describe him in multiple ocasion as "an angel" so i put him in the angel's posituon, bringing to Zanka the ilumination, the discovering of new sensations and new expiriences, ones that were prohibited as pleasure and desire.
Other details are in their hands
Where you have Zankas hands with the little injuries that he made to himself out of guilt or anxiety (or both).
And Jabbers hand, that have a light and soft touch to Zanka's chest, where his rosary stays, also his hand is "tangled" in it.
You can also se the scared knucles of Jabber :)
Finaly are the faces, these are just close ups, because... holly facecards
(Jabber got the little scar in his face ijijiji)
At the part of the editorial design i got a very simplistic aproach, just thinking of the rosari as a frame, using the colours of the background but inverted and the same with the tittle and the authors name :P
Hope you liked my ted talk :D
