#fanfic cover

[pinetreevillain]

Me and @spectra-bear read a fic series called Drifting Together by @notwhelmedyet and got seriously mentally ill about it and made an entire book cover for it

If you need an incredibly well written, thoughtful, and character-analyzing fic series to sink your teeth into, this is that series.

[cathode-animist]

Mock posters/covers for two of @manofthepipis's fics, Beyond Repair and [System Rebooting: Please stand by.].

I absolutely adored both of these stories and I had a lot of fun playing with shape, composition, contrast and symbolism when illustrating covers for them. :)

Versions with back covers + yapping about my design process under cut:

Beyond Repair was the first I read so it was also the first designed. When designing a cover for a story, the first things I consider are mood and symbolism. Id categorize Beyond Repair as a drama/romance, and it's pretty angsty, especially in the first half, so I used primarily black and blue, which also matches the primary colors in Castle Town (the setting). It's realy, realy easy to find symbolism for Spamton and Tenna in general, but for this fic specifically I felt cracked glass was the most significant. (Like, a big thing in the story is being/feeling broken, so it fits symbolically. Also there are multiple instances of glass being broken). Spamton's glasses also play a major role in the story so he's posed in a way that highlights them (in some of my early sketches for this cover it was just his glasses floating in tv glow). The shading style also helps highlight Spmaton, as he and his glasses were shaded with a soft blending brush while most of the rest of the cover has a speckled texture.

The shit that happens in chapters 8 and 9 is probably the most intense part of this fic and it had me on the edge of my seat all the way though, so I wanted to depict that for the cover, but in a way that isn't a spoiler. I posed Spamton in an abstract sort of way to show off his glasses & be as tringle as possible, and drew Tenna in a way where his shirt collar could also be read as a tv stand. In the story the cracks are not described to be this extensive, but I extended them anyway to imply a facial expression.

For a little added symbolism, I included a cracked heart and a star with it's arms cut off and sewn on to further drive the broken damaged imagery. The quote on the back cover is from chapter 1 and kinda sums up the whole first act of the story before you hit the watershed in chapter 9.

I designed the cover for System Rebooting next. I already used a boatload of blue and black in Beyond Repair's cover so I went for something different here. Neo's silhouette takes up a lot of space on the cover, as it does in the story, but Spamton and the title are given heavy contrast in order to stand out from it. I gave Jevil an overall lower contrast from Spamton in order for their silhouettes to be more clear, and I used the same shading trick I did with Beyond Repair's cover here to. (Jevil has soft shading, Spamton is cel shaded, Neo is speckled.)

The Addisons also feature a lot in the fic so they took up the back cover. They were kinda annoying to render in monochrome since the main way to differentiate them is color. All the stuff on the back cover is placed inside pop up add boxes, since that's what they are. Spamton has a box too, but it's empty and on the verge of being closed. Even if you can't read wing dings, the tab is still easily associated with Spamton since it and he are the only things on the cover that are pure black. Survey also has a different expression from the other Addisons to make them stand out as the pov character/most affected by Spamton's absence.

It was a little harder to find a perfect quote for this fic than it was for Beyond Repair, but I liked this one from chapter 9. Sort of summarizes the Addison's early sentiment about Spamton while also being vague and kinda ominous.

[sumju]

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[lordshalott]

You're Everywhere to Me

WIP: Possible Fic Cover

Got the idea for a tragic late 90s/ early 2000s AU where Jack dies and becomes a ghost haunting Hiccup. Think basically Perks of Being a Wallflower and Twilight type somber romance vibes. Coming of age, childhood friends, and Hiccup is an outcast while Jack is popular. I don't know if anyone has seen Ghost (1990) with Patrick Swayze or Just Like Heaven (2005) with Reese Witherspoon but I think about those movies so often it was only inevitable I would come to relate Hijack to them. Surprise, surprise, they're both romance movies where one person is a ghost.

I've already written about 5k words for the fic. It's not anywhere close to being done, but if you guys are interested in it, let me know. I want to feed the fandom!

Anyways, I have a watermedia "movie poster" project due soon, so I took the excuse to put Hijack in my schoolwork. The image I have shared is a concept sketch.

The "title" comes from the song Everywhere by Michelle Branch from her 2001 Spirit Room album which is also a ghost romance story themed media. I’ll post the final piece soonish but I pray that the 15 inch by 24.5 inch canvas won’t decimate me. Unfortunately, I'm behind on all my schoolwork so it probably will. Wish me luck!

[lillylovato]

The Unbelievers Epilogue by @isthatyoularry

🗃 Sports AU

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Summary:

It’s Louis’ first year at Manchester United’s football academy, and he’s dead set on doing it right. With Harry by his side, the world is there for the taking. Playing for the Under-21’s team, the path to becoming the next star of the Premier League is clear.

He didn’t expect to have to deal with a new coach, missing his friends, and a homophobic teammate making his life that much worse. Hiding his relationship with Harry seems like a good plan until it doesn’t, and handling things in general doesn’t seem to be his thing.

Or: The one where Louis and Harry definitely love each other, and football still is everything. (Maybe it shouldn’t be.)

⬅️ Unbelievers

⬅️ Bloodsport

📌 Back to Masterpost📚

[bubblegumflavor]

It all started with a stood up boyfriend, the urge to leave Hawkins and a very long, public kiss...♡

(Read on Ao3)

[kayyeh1]

@nerdpoe ok so I think I’m gonna use “the ballerina” or just a normal curled up sleeping position for my fake “sleeping god Danny” book cover, but I thought you and others might want to see the other options I came up with.

Feel free to use these however you want guys (Just credit me and tag me maybe I wanna see)

It was surprisingly hard to find funny sleeping position references images online. please reblog more funny ones here if your are so inclined

[amelia-c]

I started Flowerfell: "I'm Cold" five years ago, on 6 August 2021. And I drew this cover on 11 July 2021. Originally, it was supposed to be the only thing I drew for this series.

Who could've imagined that I would draw so many illustrations and a whole comic for it? Surely not that 15 year old girl who was just writing a fanfic in school when she had free time.

I'm going to be 20 in November, and I'll be graduating early next year and probably going to go out to work afterwards.

Flowerfell: "I'm Cold" was my first obsession, and the first stepping stone to creating the world of TWFOA which has become so intertwined with my life.

To anyone who was there in the beginning, half way through, or maybe you just found me, thank you! And I hope you stick around. I have started to write TWFOA again and hope to draw the rest of Chapter 2 soon.