dates-anthology: Dates 3: Cover Process! Erica Chan, our cover artist for Dates 3, is just
dates-anthology: Dates 3: Cover Process! Erica Chan, our cover artist for Dates 3, is just… absurdly powerful, and since we’re been lucky enough to have her do our cover illustrations three books running, we wanted to dig in and let you get a glimpse of her process! We started out by brainstorming, and then Erica brought us a whole bunch of thumbnails that covered a couple different environments and adventurous actions (trees and mountains; climbing and sailing), before we ultimately decided that we wanted to lean into forests and exploration—and that we really wanted to have kids on the cover this time.Then, Erica worked up a rough sketch, did a ton of research, and refined the figures. And after that, it was a long, careful process of inks, colors, and… many tweaks. So many tweaks. Until, finally we had our cover! We’re incredibly happy with how it turned out and so excited to hold it in our hands! We hit our base goal for Dates 3 yesterday, but if we reach our $30,000 stretch goal, we’ll be able to get some spot gloss on this gorgeous cover (AND increase our contributor page rates by $10/page). So back the book now—there’s just one week left! Support Dates! An Anthology of Queer Historical Fiction, Volume 3 here! -- source link
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