{"id":1148,"date":"2014-06-05T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T04:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2020-08-26T07:37:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:37:27","slug":"art-son-of-the-storm-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/art-son-of-the-storm-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Art: Son of the Storm Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Mageborn<\/em> was being flaunted in front of people, it was during some very tense moments for me. \u00a0The Tellest Kickstarter at the beginning of this year was the first big push I’ve made for the series and the brand for quite some time. \u00a0I knew that I wanted to take the next step – I could always be a writer, and even one that faded into obscurity, but there was a need to try and do more. \u00a0More for Tellest, and more for the fantasy community. \u00a0That Kickstarter was a roaring success, and we had to race to put something together for the second book.<\/p>\n

Mageborn<\/em> was a very tame book, and so it had a very tame cover. \u00a0It was whimsical and colorful, beautiful for sure, but since the story doesn’t highlight a lot of action, we didn’t want to focus a lot of it in the cover. \u00a0Son of the Storm<\/em>, the second book in the Tales of Tellest series, has a much grittier theme, and culminates in a lot of darker, colder tones. \u00a0On top of that, it focuses more on the alien races of Tellest rather than the magical veil that surrounds the world.<\/p>\n

We knew that we wanted to focus on the human protagonist, Bolt Thunderfury. \u00a0It’s a tale that is ultimately about him, even though its told from the perspective of his adoptive father. \u00a0But we also couldn’t set the dwarven people by the wayside. \u00a0So, too, we wanted to focus on their ancient foes, the harpies.<\/p>\n

As with\u00a0Mageborn<\/em>, we had a terrific amount of options and wiggle room. \u00a0Here is a selection of sketches that we loved but set aside.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, they were all pretty fantastic. \u00a0There were a lot of choices to be made, but we finally came to a decision.<\/p>\n

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There was something about that selection that spoke to me more than anything else. \u00a0It had a brilliant focus, and we could bring more of the novella into the cover. \u00a0After some further sketches, we knew we were onto something great.<\/p>\n

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It’s always so cool to see where Leo starts to where he ends. Practically magical in its own right.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Finally, we arrived with our finished product, which is just breathtaking. \u00a0Check out the final piece below.<\/p>\n

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When Mageborn was being flaunted in front of people, it was during some very tense moments for me. \u00a0The Tellest Kickstarter at the beginning of this year was the first big push I’ve made for the series and the brand for quite some time. \u00a0I knew that I wanted to take the next step – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[346,349,145],"tags":[327,358,63,321,362,40,41,281,282,361,152,284,61],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Son-of-the-Storm.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-iw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23119,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/23119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}