{"id":25204,"date":"2021-09-29T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=25204"},"modified":"2021-09-29T07:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T11:58:36","slug":"cover-art-dapriles-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/cover-art-dapriles-fools\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art – D’Aprile’s Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howdy folks.\u00a0 It has been a super long time since we had a cover reveal, but that time has finally come.\u00a0 Since D’Aprile’s Fools is coming out in just a few short weeks (October 26th launch date), it felt like a good time to see how we arrived at this point.\u00a0 So let’s try and take a step back, and figure out just how it came together.<\/p>\n

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Let’s start out with this piece.\u00a0 This is the first time that I put anything together like this, because I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted the cover to look like.\u00a0 I knew that I wanted the characters in a tavern, and that I wanted them kind of posed at a table.\u00a0 I’m not great at sketching things myself, but I found a tool online that is spectacular for posing (and great help for artists that want their work to be anatomically correct).\u00a0 JustSketchMe<\/a> is great, and it let me set up a roundabout way of what I wanted the D’Aprile’s Fools<\/em> cover to look like for Leo.<\/p>\n

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After that, Leo went to work making it his own.\u00a0 My original sketch was far too wide for a front cover, but it gave the better understanding of where we were trying to go for it, and it allowed Leo to compose things better.\u00a0 Six characters is a lot for a front cover, but he made it look easy.<\/p>\n

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Leo didn’t only fit them in, he made them pop.\u00a0 This is the most characters we’ve ever featured on the front cover, even considering things like Tales of Tellest<\/em>.\u00a0 And each of them looks like part of the crew.\u00a0 From left to right, we have Bixby Alladocious, Caira, Frederic D’Aprile, Leonell, Nellie and Mireya.<\/p>\n

But of course a full book cover has a back, so we had Leo keep working…<\/p>\n

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If you click on this cover, you’ll see a full sized version of it.\u00a0 We had to tweak things a little bit because our other two characters on the back weren’t fully centered, so this isn’t the final version.\u00a0 Leo worked on it a bit more though, and you’ll see that final version here:<\/p>\n

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Assuming the book is out now, all you have to do to pick it up is click this link.\u00a0 Check out D’Aprile’s Fools<\/em> on Amazon today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Howdy folks.\u00a0 It has been a super long time since we had a cover reveal, but that time has finally come.\u00a0 Since D’Aprile’s Fools is coming out in just a few short weeks (October 26th launch date), it felt like a good time to see how we arrived at this point.\u00a0 So let’s try and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[346],"tags":[1263,364,2535,2438,2440,361],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Featured-DF-Frederic.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-6yw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25204"}],"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=25204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25817,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25204\/revisions\/25817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}