{"id":4072,"date":"2016-09-14T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T04:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2016-10-12T09:54:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:54:37","slug":"interim-cover-art-dragonspeaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/interim-cover-art-dragonspeaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim Cover Art – Dragonspeaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, we were very lucky to show off an interim cover of the upcoming book, Heart of the Forest<\/em>. \u00a0Red Pear did us a solid and gave us some gorgeous artwork surrounding a character that she was familiar with, and that helped us to really sell the idea on Heart of the Forest as a Kickstarter stretch goal.<\/p>\n

Today, she’s at it again, this time with a new character who I’m certain you’ll love. \u00a0And she provides us with what may be the best art we’ve had commissioned to date.<\/p>\n

You’ve all seen Kaiyonani before, but never like this.<\/p>\n

Dragonspeaker is the name of Kaiyonani’s first big adventure. \u00a0It’s the first story that’s told without any preexisting characters being seen or mentioned. \u00a0We knew that there was a lot of work on the table for Red Pear, but she floored us every step of the way.<\/p>\n

First off, we had to pick from a set of sketches.<\/p>\n

\"01\"<\/a> \"01-2\"<\/a> \"02\"<\/a> \"03\"<\/a> \"04\"<\/a><\/p>\n

These were all the ones that we ultimately passed on. \u00a0They’re incredible, but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to see Red tackle the next sketch:<\/p>\n

\"05\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We’ve yet to see a dragonrider in any Tellest art, and this was the perfect opportunity. \u00a0Red was certainly up to the challenge, too, and she gave us a series of work in progress sketches as we neared the final piece.<\/p>\n

\"6\"<\/a> \"5c\"<\/a> \"5b\"<\/a> \"5a\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We were coming along fairly well, and then Red went into some greater detail and shading.<\/p>\n

\"6b\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"07a\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Every time she added detail, it ended up being that much cooler.<\/p>\n

\"07b\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Once color was part of the equation, it started to steal our breath away.<\/p>\n

\"20\"<\/a> \"21\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Seriously… how can you not like that cover. \u00a0It’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen in the longest time, and I could not be prouder of Red for kicking so much butt with it.<\/p>\n

\"22\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This could easily pass for the cover of Dragonspeaker<\/em>. \u00a0I hope it ends up getting a lot more people excited for the book, and that we end up surprising a lot of people with the upcoming story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, we were very lucky to show off an interim cover of the upcoming book, Heart of the Forest. \u00a0Red Pear did us a solid and gave us some gorgeous artwork surrounding a character that she was familiar with, and that helped us to really sell the idea on Heart of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4091,"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":[744,1414,743,1259],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/22-2-e1470774071341.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-13G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072"}],"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=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}