#cover art process

[harrietjinjur]

Cover process for my latest @harrietjinjur short story, The Holo-Remains, coming real soon!

Photoshop Job mock-up by me and additional polishing by @meldoesthedraw

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Esad Ribic painted the Croatian Cover artwork for George R.R. Martin’s a Storm of Swords.

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Had a brain blast with the bumper 2 bumper cover and I'm going to have a "car dashboard" theme where different little system warning signs are unique to each episode/show who's featured in them

please look at this little creatures

I think this is the most aggressively early 2000s thing I could POSSIBLY get and that is the goal here lol

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Spidre!

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Me: Ok, we're going to keep the bug fairy cover art simple. Just stick with a spider's web theme

Also me: ..... But what if..... There's lace along the edges of the web?

Anyway, hands y'all my current WIP for the bug fairy romance under the cut

It feels wayyyyy too horror themed rn, so i gotta figure out how to soften it up a bit more, but still keep the edge to it

but the disembodied spider eyes WILL be staying. I love that detail too much

I feel like spider web lace is the answer to making this feel softer. Also am probably gonna add a 4th floating hand onto the top left corner for spider dude

Maybe red roses blooming as a border along the title????

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Buge!

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Rusalka Cover Process

Ok, so I'll probably have the finished Rusalka cover next month to finally share with y'all (weeee!)

Would y'all be interested in a separate post where I go through a walk through of the creative process? There were for sure some big turns on how I eventually landed on what I have now and I think it's neat to see those kinds of things

Show us the process!

Yes, show me all those little drafts

No, I only want the pretty shiny

Other, tell me other things you want to learn about with the process

Voting ended onDec 4, 2023

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Rusalka Cover Art Process

Now that my little cover has been released to the world, I wanted to share the process with y'all!

It'll be under the cut here, because I'm not looking to do a "Do you like the color of the sky?" on y'all haha

First part of the process was finding inspo and making some sketches. I knew from the start 1) I wanted this to feel like an old school romance book cover {monster fucker edition} and 2) that I wanted to have Art Nouveau incorporated! I love the dreamy swirly quality of that style of art.

So I had the first 3 idea drafts here:

I wanted to evoke a dreamy and mysterious atmosphere. So I made a gamble and decided to have fog in the art (this will come back to haunt me later...)

After some feedback and some thinking, I picked from the things that worked from those drafts to make one for what would be the base for the actual cover:

(wow get a load of that funky green blob)

Then I cleaned up the linework for that!

Now this is where that fog comes back to haunt me. I was playing around with possible borders, but found they were a bit distracting. Instead I tried out putting a border around the moon and ADORED it. The thing is.... that fog was not fitting the vibes and was hiding way too much

So I spent many hours looking at Art Nouveau pictures and decided I'd give a go at trying ~stylized~ fog instead

Loved that, but was starting to not vibe with the U of the moon and the pink of the flower border... {RIP pink flowers}

From there it was cleanup land, but something still felt very missing

AND THAT'S WHERE I HAD THE IDEA TO TEST OUT STARS IN THE FLOWER BORDER AND I WAS DELIGHTED!

Honestly I'm really proud of how it turned out, and I learned a lot from the process. I think the covers I make in the future will be much quicker because of what I learned with this one.

Also here are some inspo pics of historical embroidery/clothes that I pulled from for Sasha's outfit: