{"id":5075,"date":"2017-03-08T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2017-03-24T07:12:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T11:12:16","slug":"interim-cover-art-dragonspeaker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/interim-cover-art-dragonspeaker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim Cover Art &#8211; Dragonspeaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, we&#8217;ll have Leo working his butt off on one cover, and we need to get ahead of a second one. \u00a0For that, we bring in the always awesome RedPear. \u00a0Three times in the last two years, she&#8217;s made magical art for us. \u00a0It&#8217;s time to show off one of those pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Note, because of how much work went into this one, we&#8217;re going to be a little less verbose when discussing it.<\/p>\n<p>We had five sketches that we ultimately ended up passing on in order to get to the final piece.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5075 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Our sixth choice was the one that we ended up loving the most, and it was just fantastic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5065\" src=\"http:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/05-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/05-200x300.jpg 200w, 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