Over 6 hours of my onscreen compositing, retouching, color correction, type obsessing, all condensed down to a slim sexy one minute 55 seconds of cover design. Trust me, no one wants to watch it in real-time…and even then I left out the not-as-riveting-onscreen stages of my cover design process, such as reading the manuscript, sifting through Alexia photoshoot outtakes, background photo research, etc. And since this is a series look that has already been established for Soulless and Changeless, there weren’t the usual batches and rounds of versions of different designs that happen with standalone or first-in-a-new-series covers. That would be a weeklong video!
I always wanted to know how cover art was conceived and now that question has been answered. By the way, this has been borrowed from the Orbit Blog, where you can find a long post, describing the process and the people, plus material involved in just this one cover. Awesome, eh?
2 comments:
Very awesome, indeed. I don't know if I'd have the patience for that, though. I just drool over the end products.
Yeah, me too. But it is a lot like writing, if you look at it at a more psychic angle.
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