{"id":380,"date":"2005-05-03T20:13:56","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T04:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=380"},"modified":"2005-12-22T20:05:49","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T04:05:49","slug":"charming-the-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Charming the Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"

I promised one of you that I’d post tonight, so I thought I’d post a WIP (work in progress) of my very first chick-lit type of cover, now in print at Amazon<\/a>. Uh, it looks like crap on Amazon, but I swear, the quality was better than that when I turned in the press-ready PDF file!<\/p>\n

The book is actually more erotic romance than chick lit, but the art direction I was given was for a cartoon cover much like those found on chick lit. Ironic that I’m so into making cartoons, and this is the first time in the year and a half that I’ve been doing book covers that I’ve actually done a cartoon book cover.<\/p>\n

Anyway, like most of my cartoons, it began with a scanned pencil sketch…<\/p>\n

\"Scanned<\/p>\n

Next came the color rough. Most chick-lit covers are done as cartoon vector art in solid colors — flat, but cute and whimsical, very stylized. So bear in mind, that’s what I was going for…<\/p>\n

\"Color<\/p>\n

But that was just for the front. The back needed art, too, so I sketched those in and laid all the parts out in Photoshop…<\/p>\n

\"Layout<\/p>\n

Then I imported the layout as a template in Illustrator and traced all the shapes…<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

I imported the resulting art into InDesign and laid out all the text over it. The background color looked a little off, so I used plain old magenta for the background instead. The final PDF file looked a little bit like this…<\/p>\n

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

Note how I kept the same font for the title text as in the original ebook cover…<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

And, yeah … I know it’s suggestive. Like I said, it’s an erotic romance.<\/p>\nShare this post:

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I promised one of you that I’d post tonight, so I thought I’d post a WIP (work in progress) of my very first chick-lit type of cover, now in print at Amazon. Uh, it looks like crap on Amazon, but I swear, the quality was better than that when I turned in the press-ready PDF file! The book is actually more erotic romance than chick lit, but the art direction I was given was for a cartoon cover much like…<\/p>\n

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