13 years ago
Wed Oct 06 2010, 07:33pm
Hi all!
Here is the story:
In my school, there's this program for selected students where they can do a project other than the curriculum to devlop their skills and it is completely of their choosing. It is AWESOME! So, I was one of the people in my year to be selected to do the program, and the project I chose to do was a novel. It's been a lot of work and I'm almost finished, so I want to start thinking about a cover. I am bad at drawing and worse with computer programs, so I was wondering if I could have any help from obernetters!
If you choose to help me, could you please make it around A4 size and scan it to the computer, then post or emil me a link to it so I can use it. In the front of my book I'll say that it was drawn/made by you and I'm using it with your permission, so there will be no stealing of rights to the picture. I'd really appreciate it if you could help!
About the book:
- It has no name yet, so if you have any sugestions that would also be appreciaed :)
- It's about a girl called Rena who is around 18-20 years old. She lives in a world were there are both humans and angel-human hybrids called Warrior Angels somewhere in the future. She looks tall, has ginormous white wings ('cause she's a warrior angel) and has sandycoloured hair. Anyway, she has a human sister who's name is Ebony and is 6 years old with white blond hair. Both their parents died 2 years previous to the book's start.
- Anyway, there's an unexplained sickness in their world called the Shadow sickness. Victims describe it as if something is crawling into their brain and controlling them, and scarring their thoughts. It affects a lot of people, and has been around for ages. Nobody knows the cause but only the results, of wich there are three: the person survives but they usually go mad from what they see, the person dies, or they turn into a harpy. Harpies are malicious violence craving creatures who like to kill and nothing else. They are lethal. Also, if they were a Warrior Angel before they changed, their once white wings become black.
- The storyline, briefly, is that Ebony gets the sickness. Rena is sad because she loves her sister a lot. A crazy Harpy sets fire to the hospital where Ebony stays because of the sickness, and Ebony is rescued but dies of smoke poisoning four days later. After the funeral, Rena tries to kill herself by jumping off a cliff in the middle of the night but while she falls she finds the Harpy's hidey hole in the cliff and kills it. She is over her suicide mood after that and embarks on a journey to find the source of the sickness, with the help of Kya (Kai-a).
- Kya is a 14 year old girl who is a rebel, but a nice rebel. She has short dark brown hair, usually wears a red skirt with a white button down shirt and red tie (like a school uniform except she doesn't go to school) and she has a scar across her right cheek.
Thank you very much for your help guys, because one day I want to publish this and this helps so much. If you have any questions just ask :)
Edit:
JUST REMEMBER, THIS IS MY IDEA. PLEASE DO NOT COPY OR DELIBERATELY WRITE A STORY WITH THE INFOR MATION I HAVE GIVEN. I have a serious issue with people copying my stuff...I'll find you...
WOW! Sounds very interesting and i would love to read it! I was wondering if you had any ideas on what you wanted the cover to look like. I would really love to try and draw you a cover but I'm not sure weather you would be OK with that?
I'm already super excited about this and am trying to think of the best way to portray them onto the cover! :D
Well, of course you can draw it! It's just that you have to have a scanner so that I can get the picture and print it out. Thank you very much for helping! Some ideas that I had for the cover were:
- dark sort of clours, like blues and blacks in the background.
- you might like to draw Rena with/without some of the other characters there. After all, the book is from her POV
- maybe some of the sky, because Rena can fly.
Ok, thanks for the ideas!
I was thinking maybe a lone, or not lone, Rena standing staring into the sky with darkness sorta creeping in around her.
Wow! That sound's really good! You see, this is why I don't want to draw it myself :P
I can see it in my mind. I think you should go ahead with that idea.
OK. Thanks.
I was wondering what type of clothes she wears, and whether she has any weapons, trinkets? Is her hair long or short?
Not sure if I should bother anyone with posting this, as I'm not really helping you, but your story sounds really cool, like its already been published, and I'm sure Beth will do an awesome job of your cover! :)
13 years ago
Wed Oct 06 2010, 07:26pm
@ Ashaleeahie - thankyou :)
And to Beth, she wears a cream-coloured coat that goes down to her knees, and black clothes underneath, from a funeral. She wears thae same clothes for half the book :P and her hair is long - it reaches her waist.
13 years ago
Sat Oct 23 2010, 04:09pm
Thanks for that info. I was wondering if you would mind if i put her in a dress without the jacket?
I was also wondering the title of the book and your name. If you would prefer you can PM me those details.
I will scan you a copy of the cover without the title and stuff, just so you can tell me if that is what you want.