just wondering are you allowed to draw the cover on paper thn scan it and copy and paste it to whereever its meant to go cas i really suck when it comes to computers lol
Yeap Cassy, you can use whatever method you like to create the cover. If you scan it, it'll be brought into an imaging editing program and you can edit it to the required format from there. And as long as the final image you upload is 340 x 480 pixels, and a .jpg, .png or .gif, it will be accepted.
Thank you i will enter this one i absolutly adored the book
That's interesting Cassy because I could never really get into GMD.
Ooh, I love these kind of comps :D I shall read the book again for ideas.
Can't wait to see everyone's designs!
Hopefully they'll be good. :D COnsidering everyone gets sooooo long to design them.
I've started a design, but my trouble is I can't figure out which story I want to depict, there's so many good ones. I think I'm going to go for The Glory Days and hopefully get a green monkey in there somewhere :P
Ashling Guildmistress
13 years ago
Ashling Guildmistress
Mage
That's my problem too Min :P too many good things to depict! I just have to choose one and settle on it! ~:|
Ashling Guildmistress
13 years ago
Wed Aug 11 2010, 03:32pm
Ashling Guildmistress
Mage
Pretty!
[act]cough[/act] Right suggestions aye?
[act]studies critically[/act]
... I can say the first thing that stuck out for me is the fact that 'GMD' is all big while IC's name is small. My first thoughts was that nowadays Isobelle is so popular her name would the largest text on the page
buuut :P that's really a neither here nor there thing - it's just what came to my mind first
I like the way you've included the green text around the areas and your choice of models for use on the cover (even if my first thought is '@rgh don't blink/where's Min-doll')
I confess that the wing(?) just behind the girl's head is odd to me... also the white seems very bright to me. I wonder what the effect would be if you swapped the white background for green and the 'green' text for white?
Anyways - they are just a few things / me being nitpicky :P hopefully you find it useful? Or you know just completely ignore me - either or :D
EDIT: Hrms... so I should re-read this book aye? :D
Thanks MK - yeah you mentioned one of the things I was unsure about - the sheer whiteness of everything. I did try a couple of colours; light yellows, etc but it just ended up looking muddy to me. The green background / white text seemed 90's to me - like a black website with white text if that makes any sense - and because of the lightness of the art under it, it felt a bit unbalanced.
Buuuuut, the reason the glow is so white around the bodies is because I did a lazy / quick cut out of the angel, wing and girl (so the glow cleans up the messy edges for me :P ). Maybe I should just do it properly :P and that'll get rid of the need for the glowing.
I like the suggestion about making Isobelle's name bigger and now that I look at it, I should have at least made the size of her name the same width as the title.
Will play with it some more - what about the subject matter, does it work in context of the story? I know you don't like the wing there (it's supposed to be holding her...I had toyed with a proper white feathered wing but it looked completely disconnected since the angel is stone - and haha yes, that's partially why I chose this story; can do all sorts of things with the old Blink angel concept XD).
Where are everyone else's works-in-progress btw? :P
Ah, good idea (about the depth perspective)! So that's why it feels so 'flat' to me :P
Ashling Guildmistress
13 years ago
Ashling Guildmistress
Mage
That's pretty funky susie! I love the effect you've created with the ripply water and the colour scheme you've chosen!
If were to comment on any 'strange' aspects, the tree covering the girl's face is the only thing that really stands out for me. Otherwise I look forward to seeing more concepts!
Oh wow Susie - I love it!!
(That could totally be a depiction from The Phoenix, IMO, too!)
Ashling Guildmistress
13 years ago
Ashling Guildmistress
Mage
The second link is my favourite :) I can't really say much more :P
Awesome, glad you like. I'll submit that one then :nod:
I've submitted a cover, but it seems to be the wrong size ~:| should I resubmit it or just leave it like that?
Could you resubmit it at the right size, Axe? That way the aspect ratio won't be warped like that. Let us know once you've uploaded the new one, and we'll remove the old one.