Another cover for Melange Books.
Oiy, this one was a doozy. I finally got a chance to play with anthropomorphic characters again, and these aren’t your usual species… here we have a spiny anteater and an armadillo. Let’s just say I got to really play with character creation and setting creation. This one took a bunch of stock photos to complete, and this is an example of where it’s helpful to have a stock subscription to be able to pick up everything at a lower cost. Melange Books had the stock subscription, so that helped. I put together the mock first, and then did the final tweaks once we had the basics. Some stuff went together really easily with the use of auto-align layers, while other pieces had to be separately liquefied or smudged or drawn in. Meanwhile, I tried using fonts and word placement as close to the previous books in this series as possible (we were trying to give the series a more ‘adult’ feel to it by changing styles), while keeping the consistency.
Overall, I’m really pleased with the final result.
I also put the back cover together for this cover, though the image on the back is not mine. It was provided by the author.
Stock Photos from Dreamstime:
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photos-cave-hall-image14618508
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photo-strong-athletic-man-black-background-image30214805
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-image-australian-echidna-image6339046
http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photography-metal-texture-image17228342
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-brunette-image17777569
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photos-armadillo-walking-wild-beach-patagonia-argentina-image32754688
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photo-echidna-image20668355
http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-image-dancing-floor-ballerina-her-hand-up-isolated-grey-concept-elegant-art-sportive-hobby-image34059181
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photos-brunette-image17777658
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-image-isolated-crystal-ball-quartz-pewter-image33701686
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photos-hand-grenade-image4470988
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photography-crystal-ball-yellow-image13590487
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photo-colorful-smoke-clouds-close-up-image37751135
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-image-rainbow-abstract-fractal-image13255096
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http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photo-medieval-dagger-image21957385
http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-color-sound-waves-image25814440
http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-oscilloscope-image-image34795210
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Stephanie Flint - Author and Artist 