Bad news for trees...

[avevale_intelligencer]

I'm finally starting to work on dead-tree editions of the novels so far piblished on Avevale. There will be two Nyrond volumes, one for OIK (when it is finished) and one for Lost Goats and some extra bits and bobs, some of which you may not have seen. Those will be designed like the Austin.

This is my first pass at Tetrad:




I'm not entirely happy with it--it's a compromise, and it's very generic, and the models are clearly models--but when you can't paint you do what you can do, and I'm still happy with my two fonts, and I honestly don't think the blurb is bad.

Next up is Oonaverse. No idea.

Anyway, that's one done.

Originally posted on http://avevale_intelligencer.dreamwidth.org. Comment here or there or both if you wish.

Comments

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

The general format of the cover is ok, but - and it's a big but - the horse/unicorn is really, really wrong. The forelegs are stuck on all wrong; the genitalia are not much like anything I've seen on a horse and look as though they've been stuck on with bluetack and as such draw the eye unerringly; the back legs seem odd at the thigh, the haunch is like a bustle - the haunch does not stick out like that when a horse rears. It's really not a good horse. Can you find another model?

Oh, and I'm definitely buying this when it's out.

[eintx.livejournal.com]

I still can't see pictures.
I'll try again later!

[eintx.livejournal.com]

I can't draw either, but I think this is a matter for someone who can!
There must be lots of people out there who are able to draw a better unicorn (or virgin, while we're at it) than this programme or whatever it is!

(One of them even lives with you! :) But if she's busy writing or if you'd rather not work together - some couples just don't like to - well, there are still quite a few artists left. Why leave it to the computer?)

[themis1.livejournal.com]

I know you said you like the font, but the back cover blurb is confusing - I spent a moment wondering who the Datican was whose agents were pursuing the heroes before I realised ... and now I'm not sure if the heroine's surname is Darland or Varland.