Cover Art and Logos

by taerKitty Fri 18 Jan 2013 - 11:23

As with many things, I blame Emmie. This time for inspiring me to even consider sharing this.

It all started with me posting about Creating Covers for FanFiction.Net. Then, to thank TSM for beta-reading, I made him a cover for his Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles fic, Effective:

Cover Art and Logos Tssc_fanfiction___effective_by_taerkitty-d5rez30

(I also made it into an ePub for e-readers.)
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Then a second one, this time for his GsG fic, Porcupine Love:

Cover Art and Logos Gsg_fanfic_porcupine_love_cover_by_taerkitty-d5rg6zc

This second one actually has some original artwork in it. Triela's thighs weren't on the source artwork. It too is available in ePub format.

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Anyhow, after this, Emmie asked for a log for one of her Eternal Solace groups, Project Skyline:

Cover Art and Logos Eternal_solace___project_skyline_by_taerkitty-d5rn91b

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And I made her one for another group, NIGHTMARE:

Cover Art and Logos Eternal_solace___nightmare_division_by_taerkitty-d5rtlpf

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And I was somehow compelled to make this for John_234's Rehabilitation Branch:

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I've collected the OpenOffice Draw source file for these in a DA gallery along with my own covers.

And what of those covers? They're actually not a good as these, so I'll be remaking them if ever I get the chance.

However, I'm willing to try creating logos and adding banners and logs onto existing artwork as covers for your fics.

by **Kiskaloo** Fri 18 Jan 2013 - 12:06

by taerKitty Fri 18 Jan 2013 - 13:29

As the Multi-Talented Cat indicates, this is not meant to be MY thread - if you have a cover, jump on in!

by **Kiskaloo** Fri 18 Jan 2013 - 20:26

by Alfisti Sat 19 Jan 2013 - 4:11

I'll join in the fun...

Most have probably already seen these as they are right through my fiction thread, but each chapter of And the Adventure Continues has of course had its own little header image:

Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_01_by_wraith11-d47bffk

Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_01_by_wraith11-d47bffk

Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_02_by_wraith11-d4dhk8v

Around Chapter 03, after some discussion with 47ness I went to a lighter typeface (Century Gothic) for the lower block of text, which neatened up the layout somewhat. Up until then, as with the comic, it had been Pilsen Plakat all the way through.
Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_03_by_wraith11-d4g0djj

Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_03_by_wraith11-d4g0djj

Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_04_by_wraith11-d4kh041

Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_05_by_wraith11-d4pfhdx

Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_06_by_wraith11-d4vdyb4

Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_07_by_wraith11-d58a56r

Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_08_by_wraith11-d5ba38r

Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_09_by_wraith11-d5icexu

Chapter 10's header caused me some headaches as, up until this point I had been working in fairly warm, high contrast images and the style I was using had sort of been shaped by that. Suddenly I needed muted, dull tones...
Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_10_by_wraith11-d5kmi7c

Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_10_by_wraith11-d5kmi7c

Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_11_by_wraith11-d5pf7v4

And that's where the story is currently up to. Chapter 11's header also marks the first time there's no dark block for the "Jethro+Monty A Gunsliger Girl Fan Fiction by Alfisti" to sit over. Didn't look as much of a mess as I expected. Needless to say; if I go to shorter chapters, these header images will also disappear.

by **Kiskaloo** Sat 19 Jan 2013 - 11:14

Alfisti wrote:Needless to say; if I go to shorter chapters, these header images will also disappear.

by taerKitty Sat 19 Jan 2013 - 13:24

We'll still welcome them once ever 10-30k words over n chapters, Alfisti1

by Alfisti Sun 27 Jan 2013 - 8:41

And, just for a change of pace, and actual cover rather than chapter header:

Cover Art and Logos Meanwhile_in_italy_cover_by_wraith11-d5sw3gn

This one's for Danilo & Raych's story "Meanwhile in Italy"... which ties in to an extent to "And the Adventure Continues". Either way: different dimensions, different typeface and treatment of how it's placed and different colour pallet with different post-production tweaks to help seperate the two stories.

I was at a bit of an impass as to how to approach this one. On one hand, this story was supposed to be a bit more "down to earth" than J+M's jetsetting adventures. On the other hand "down to earth" doesn't really describe the Olivetti fratello, Danilo in particular prefering technological solutions and having little interest in old things.

Obviously the end decision was to go with a more futuristic look.

For reasons unknown, this was running whilst drawing it, because it really does not suit the characters or story:

by **Kiskaloo** Sun 27 Jan 2013 - 11:35

That's some amazing use of shadow and lighting, mate.

by tremec6speed Sun 27 Jan 2013 - 14:58

Wow!

by taerKitty Sun 27 Jan 2013 - 15:05

Fantastic!

by MP5 Sun 27 Jan 2013 - 17:19

Brilliant job, Alfisti.

by tremec6speed Mon 28 Jan 2013 - 20:33

I luv how friendly Jethro looks on two of the pictures. The fez and with the knife, he looks particularly cheerful! head bang

I dig him.

by Alfisti Tue 29 Jan 2013 - 1:05

tremec6speed wrote:I luv how friendly Jethro looks on two of the pictures. The fez and with the knife, he looks particularly cheerful! I dig him.

Well Jethro enjoys painting, and the Fez annoys Monty... which he also enjoys... so of course he looks happy in both pictures Razz

by Il Direttore Mon 18 Feb 2013 - 22:01

So I made an SWA logo.

I have no idea how good it is.

Cover Art and Logos Swa_lo10

by **Kiskaloo** Mon 18 Feb 2013 - 22:09

This is the one used in the manga and anime:

Cover Art and Logos Image002

by FearTheLASERFACE Tue 19 Feb 2013 - 0:40

It seems to me I cannot show a dA deviation directly here, so I'll link it instead.

A quick preliminary cover art for a cyberpunk-style GSG fanfiction I am writing.

Here

by tremec6speed Tue 19 Feb 2013 - 1:10

All three look great! head bang

The 3rd one looks futuristic!

by taerKitty Tue 19 Feb 2013 - 2:05

FearTheLASERFACE wrote:It seems to me I cannot show a dA deviation directly here, so I'll link it instead.

A quick preliminary cover art for a cyberpunk-style GSG fanfiction I am writing.

Here

Cover Art and Logos Gunslinger_girl__deus_ex_machina_by_fearthelaserface-d5v585k

by Il Direttore Thu 21 Feb 2013 - 19:12

Made a second attempt at the SWA Logo, this time with research!

Spoiler:

No background, .png file.

Cover Art and Logos Swalog11

White background, .png file.

Cover Art and Logos Swalog12

by taerKitty Mon 6 May 2013 - 22:56

Remember how I said I was doing my work in OpenOffice Draw because I couldn't afford Creative Suite?

Well, shut my mouth...

Gizmodo was kind enough to share the following:

Adobe's giving us all a late Christmas present. You can grab yourself a free, legitimate copy of Photoshop and the rest of the Creative Suite 2, right now, direct from Adobe. No catch.

Well, unless you think having an Adobe account is a catch. Anyway, apparently Adobe's tired of keeping the activation servers running to support legitimate installs of the 10-year-old CS2, so it's decided to just give it away. Sounds great to me.

Handy if all you need is a quick image editor, Photoshop CS2 will still do all the basic things, just not the new fancy smart ‘content aware‘ stuff. Free's free, so get over to Adobe.com and get downloading. [Adobe via Twitter]

Update:The install for Mac is actually for Power PC devices, so you'll need Mac OS X v.10.2.8–v.10.3.8 or Rosetta to get it working.

by Il Direttore Mon 6 May 2013 - 23:12

taerkitty wrote:
Update:[/b]The install for Mac is actually for Power PC devices, so you'll need Mac OS X v.10.2.8–v.10.3.8 or Rosetta to get it working.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~~!!!

by taerKitty Mon 6 May 2013 - 23:16

Boot Camp, dude.

by Il Direttore Mon 6 May 2013 - 23:18

taerkitty wrote:Boot Camp, dude.

Oh.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY~~~!!!!

by **ElfenMagix** Tue 7 May 2013 - 12:42

El Conservatore wrote:
taerkitty wrote:
Update:[/b]The install for Mac is actually for Power PC devices, so you'll need Mac OS X v.10.2.8–v.10.3.8 or Rosetta to get it working.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~~!!!

It should work for PPC up to 10.5 and Intel up to 10.7 (before Apple removed PPC Emulation from OSX. Big mistake on their part say.)

by **ElfenMagix** Tue 7 May 2013 - 12:45

TK - Great idea! Now you got me thinking on creating one for my works... UGH! Evil

by Alfisti Sun 19 May 2013 - 4:41

And so, the final chapter header for AtAC:
Cover Art and Logos And_the_adventure_continues_13_by_wraith11-d65ntvl

Which honestly looks like a fairly typical day in the life of Jethro+Monty come to think of it. It's also the first one which hasn't had a sketched thumbnail on paper to work of...

...actually, not quite, there were two thumbnails: one quite busy and detailed, the other quite minimalist... this is the middle ground.

by **ElfenMagix** Thu 23 May 2013 - 17:08

That is great Alfisti!!! Excellence is grand!!!

by Il Direttore Tue 2 Jul 2013 - 13:44

This is what I do when I'm supposed to study...

Cover Art and Logos Cyborg11

A distinctive unit insignia for the cyborgs. Completely against standard operating procedure, I know, but it was fun to do.

(Edit, version 2)

by taerKitty Wed 3 Jul 2013 - 11:37

Very nice!

by taerKitty Fri 9 Aug 2013 - 4:46

With my recent rant about making ePubs out of our work, I decided to split the 38 chapters (at current time) that comprises the two 'volumes' of my primary OC fanfic, A Triumph of the Heart into two separate volumes. I always disliked the original artwork, and couldn't find the source file, so I decided to go with a theme for the replacements.

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Edit 2013-08-10 (very early in the morning)

Thanks to a bout of insomnia, here's what I have:

ePub

by taerKitty Sun 11 Aug 2013 - 13:10

Unsure if double-tapping is forbidden here (I'm sure it's not forbidden for the cyborgs) Apologies if it is. TSM also writes Firefly fanfiction. Here are some covers for his other stuff:

A Man of Honor
Cover Art and Logos Firefly___a_man_of_honor_by_taerkitty-d6hl00o

Cover Art and Logos Firefly___a_man_of_honor_by_taerkitty-d6hl00o

ePub

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A Man of Action
Cover Art and Logos Firefly___a_man_of_action_by_taerkitty-d6hkxb1

ePub

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A Man of Principle
Cover Art and Logos Firefly___a_man_of_principle_by_taerkitty-d6hl2d1

ePub

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... and I Got Yer AU Right Here
Cover Art and Logos I_got_yer_au_right_here_by_taerkitty-d6hn1ax

I got yer ePub right here.

by **Kiskaloo** Tue 17 Sep 2013 - 19:44

by taerKitty Tue 17 Sep 2013 - 21:21

Looks great!

by tremec6speed Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 17:19

Cool!!

by tremec6speed Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 17:23

taerkitty wrote:With my recent rant about making ePubs out of our work, I decided to split the 38 chapters (at current time) that comprises the two 'volumes' of my primary OC fanfic, A Triumph of the Heart into two separate volumes. I always disliked the original artwork, and couldn't find the source file, so I decided to go with a theme for the replacements.

ePub

Aaaaagh! No! Bad Elsa, bad! Hissy fit

by **Kiskaloo** Sun 20 Oct 2013 - 15:19

Did some tweaking to Michele and Kara's origin story for the TOS timeline so I created a cover to go with it:

Cover Art and Logos Intersections_of_Vertices

Cover Art and Logos Intersections_of_Vertices

by taerKitty Sun 20 Oct 2013 - 17:22

Cover Art and Logos Gsg_christmas_choices_by_taerkitty-d6r3rey

This is probably going to end up being Volume 5 or 6's cover, but for now, it's Paolo and Dina's Christmas story.

by **Kiskaloo** Sun 20 Oct 2013 - 19:37

by taerKitty Sun 20 Oct 2013 - 23:39

I love the one for I Know Saint Peter Won't Call My Name...!!!

by **Kiskaloo** Mon 21 Oct 2013 - 21:09

Still updating my TOS on ff.net and creating covers:

My first TOS story (and first GSG fan fiction):

Cover Art and Logos Stellar_Cartography

My last TOS era story:

Cover Art and Logos Giuoco_Pianissimo

Speaking of Christmas stories:

Cover Art and Logos Sassou

My first "two-parter" story (this is Part One with Public Relations being Part Two)::

Cover Art and Logos Under_the_Radar

If the SWA actually existed:

Cover Art and Logos Never_Play_an_Ace

by Schaschanist Tue 22 Oct 2013 - 9:16

Kiskaloo wrote:

Ah, the Fontana Di Trevi, reminds me of my chapter "The Cyborg gets a Boyfried"

Kiskaloo wrote:

That one made me sad....

by **Kiskaloo** Tue 5 Nov 2013 - 13:16

Decided to go simple with this one:

Cover Art and Logos Pactio

by taerKitty Tue 5 Nov 2013 - 13:56

I love it!

by tremec6speed Tue 5 Nov 2013 - 19:52

Wow Kiskaloo, luv these pictures! head bang

by taerKitty Mon 25 Nov 2013 - 23:02

Hm. I can't believe I didn't post this image here already. (And, if I did, please tell me!!!)

This is for Henrietta's Christmas story, A Gift Repaid. TSM suggested I post a CC Christmas story per year. I doubled up last year for Rico and Triela to make up for my first year.

by taerKitty Thu 28 Nov 2013 - 21:23

New TSM story, new cover:

Cover Art and Logos In_somniis_verum_by_taerkitty-d6w0o50

by Thescarredman Fri 29 Nov 2013 - 12:54

Thanks, Kitty. It's up on FFnet now, and looks great.

by taerKitty Fri 29 Nov 2013 - 13:10

Here's another one:

Cover Art and Logos Partnership_by_taerkitty-d6w32ew

by Thescarredman Fri 29 Nov 2013 - 15:04

Hm. I waslanning to replace that image with one of Alf's Monty+Jethro pics, just haven't found the right one yet. How much trouble to redo this once I find it?

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