{"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
<\/a><\/p>\n 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 <\/a><\/p>\n 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 <\/a><\/p>\n 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