{"id":33207,"date":"2024-06-19T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T10:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=33207"},"modified":"2024-01-02T12:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T17:20:38","slug":"cover-art-ancestral-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/cover-art-ancestral-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art – Ancestral Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings, travelers!\u00a0 We’re a little ways away from when the third Adelia Kreegan book dropped, and strangely, you’re not going to see the efforts that went into making that cover work just quite yet.\u00a0 That’s because we actually had the cover of the Ancestral Magic trilogy done first.\u00a0 As you can see below, Paul Davies had us prepped for a while with an awesome sketch, with the series’ most popular characters, Adelia, Gaston, Lucinda and Merlin, all on the front cover.\u00a0 In fact, we liked the composition of this so much that it’s likely when we go for trilogies of our other characters, we’ll run things the same.<\/p>\n

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Paul wasn’t available to complete the piece, but he gave his blessing for fellow UK artist Steven Bellshaw to take the reins, and continue things along.\u00a0 Steven, who you may know as one of our more prolific artist collaborators, gave things a coat of paint to start, and extended the book cover to the spine and rear as well.\u00a0 As much as the the quartet on the front are important, we knew that Forsynthia was a special character all its own, so we have that as a focal feature of the back cover.<\/p>\n

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With a little bit of polish, we started to see things a little more clearly.\u00a0 We briefly lose the magic ring around the characters in the background, but you can certainly see them a bit better.\u00a0 The keep on the back cover grew pretty tall, so we asked to adjust that somewhat.\u00a0 And we also got our first look at the gatehouse, which was originally built to look sort of like a house itself, but you’ll see that was adjusted.<\/p>\n

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The biggest changes to the next iteration was that things on the back started to look much more like the way that we envisioned them.\u00a0 The keep is “open air” and the gatehouse actually surrounds the road leading to Forsynthia.\u00a0 Along the way, little bits of polish have been added to the characters too.<\/p>\n

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Still more polish showing up on background elements, and we also see the return of the runic circle behind Gaston and Lucinda!\u00a0 One of the other things that got a hefty amount of polish on this update was Adelia’s staff.\u00a0 It’s an important feature of her character in the third book, and it’s long been featured in a lot of her art\u2014so much so that we actually integrated it into the story.<\/p>\n

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And here you can see the final iteration of the cover.\u00a0 With all its polish, some ice magic fluttering about, and a twist to a golden runic circle behind the characters, everything seems that much more magical.\u00a0 I was very impressed by the work of both of our artists on this piece, and I could not be happier with the cover of our first trilogy in ten years!<\/p>\n

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We’ve got some more Adelia stuff to show off, as you haven’t yet seen how Leo brought her third book to life, so be on the lookout for that.\u00a0 It’s going to be a while yet, as we have plenty of things that are taking precedence!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings, travelers!\u00a0 We’re a little ways away from when the third Adelia Kreegan book dropped, and strangely, you’re not going to see the efforts that went into making that cover work just quite yet.\u00a0 That’s because we actually had the cover of the Ancestral Magic trilogy done first.\u00a0 As you can see below, Paul Davies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33158,"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":[234,2635,364,232,360,3481,1450,2648],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Featured-Ancestral-Magic.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-8DB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33207"}],"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=33207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34385,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33207\/revisions\/34385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}