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Hello all!
I need assistance with a book cover design for my fantasy novel ‘The Farmer and the Fald’.
I have put together an extremely rough mock-up of the look I’m after, but lack the software (and skill, if I’m honest) to tidy it and give that professional, glossy look.
I would like a striking, rich design. With deep, muted colours and plenty of depth in shading and highlights. Think of illuminated manuscripts, and old dusty tomes.
I have attached an example, I love the look of the ‘The Cruel Prince’s design. And an illustration from the book itself, as well as some descriptors and extracts to help inspire the design of the Fald’s egg. Which I would love to look alien, and jagged, like obsidian, perhaps with a warmish glow coming from it’s centre.
Of everything I mocked up, I would say the typography and text is the thing I’m least set on. I’d really like a little more design aesthetic with the words, and I think it would be lovely if the briars and brambles coiled through and over everything, as though the text is suspended by the branches.
The back cover is more open, I don’t even know where to start with it if I’m honest.
BLURB
Farmer Bundon never dreamed of fancy. But when, by chance; in the hedgerows, he discovers a fald’s egg (a dragon’s smaller, uglier cousin) fancy seems to find him regardless. He and his spirited daughter Tyr’Dalka are brought unwillingly into a conflict, where his humble wisdom, her boundless honesty and a cowardly fald must do battle against the more contemptible shadows of human kind; the dark fires of avarice, pride and wrath.
“But there’s no forcing the hearts of the unwilling, lest you lend your hands to conquest. And we’re no conquerors, Tyr. Just a farmer, and his daughter.”
Through talks of destiny and deals with dragons; through the oaths of knights and the riddles of elves, the reluctant and weary family weaves their thread, and lay their humble hands to drawing out the foul poisons of the world, when and wherever they might find them.
And finding that adventures, true adventures, rarely resemble the stories.
——————
Extracts of note:
“—He did not stir until the first of dawn’s birdsongs trilled from the bracken. He woke suddenly, and winced a moment later, as his mind recalled his sense of pain. He felt a walking scab. Covered in dry blood and aching all over, itchy from the brambles in his clothes and then sore from his own itching.
Dear Noble Dragon, when you breathed your life into the world… did you have to give us brambles? Why give the sweet, fat Lord Blackberry such vicious household guards?
In the light of day, the farmer was in no small part relieved when he found his milk pail, empty alas, but intact. And soon it was filled with berries. He was about to embark on his climb back up to the road, when he noticed something else. He hadn’t seen it the night before, so black was its shell. But there it was. Amidst a sea of splintered, obsidian shards.
A stone. No. An egg. Large. Larger than any egg he’d seen before. A shell shiny and black and jagged, as though it were made of cut glass. And more. It was warm. Warm, inside.
“A little one,” the farmer said aloud. He felt nervous suddenly. As though this were a trick or a trap. People didn’t just find fald eggs on the side of the road. Not once had that happened to anyone he knew. Ever. This was new. A new thing. Happening just for him. The farmer ill-liked that, he ill-trusted, he ill, ill… it was just ill. All of it.”
If there are any follow-up questions, please feel free to ask. First time posting a job on PPH, rather than desperately trying to nab one, so it’s all new to me!
Please apply with as many portfolio pieces, examples, recommendations, as you can/like. You can’t show off too much, in my eyes.
Thank you for your time.
J
I need assistance with a book cover design for my fantasy novel ‘The Farmer and the Fald’.
I have put together an extremely rough mock-up of the look I’m after, but lack the software (and skill, if I’m honest) to tidy it and give that professional, glossy look.
I would like a striking, rich design. With deep, muted colours and plenty of depth in shading and highlights. Think of illuminated manuscripts, and old dusty tomes.
I have attached an example, I love the look of the ‘The Cruel Prince’s design. And an illustration from the book itself, as well as some descriptors and extracts to help inspire the design of the Fald’s egg. Which I would love to look alien, and jagged, like obsidian, perhaps with a warmish glow coming from it’s centre.
Of everything I mocked up, I would say the typography and text is the thing I’m least set on. I’d really like a little more design aesthetic with the words, and I think it would be lovely if the briars and brambles coiled through and over everything, as though the text is suspended by the branches.
The back cover is more open, I don’t even know where to start with it if I’m honest.
BLURB
Farmer Bundon never dreamed of fancy. But when, by chance; in the hedgerows, he discovers a fald’s egg (a dragon’s smaller, uglier cousin) fancy seems to find him regardless. He and his spirited daughter Tyr’Dalka are brought unwillingly into a conflict, where his humble wisdom, her boundless honesty and a cowardly fald must do battle against the more contemptible shadows of human kind; the dark fires of avarice, pride and wrath.
“But there’s no forcing the hearts of the unwilling, lest you lend your hands to conquest. And we’re no conquerors, Tyr. Just a farmer, and his daughter.”
Through talks of destiny and deals with dragons; through the oaths of knights and the riddles of elves, the reluctant and weary family weaves their thread, and lay their humble hands to drawing out the foul poisons of the world, when and wherever they might find them.
And finding that adventures, true adventures, rarely resemble the stories.
——————
Extracts of note:
“—He did not stir until the first of dawn’s birdsongs trilled from the bracken. He woke suddenly, and winced a moment later, as his mind recalled his sense of pain. He felt a walking scab. Covered in dry blood and aching all over, itchy from the brambles in his clothes and then sore from his own itching.
Dear Noble Dragon, when you breathed your life into the world… did you have to give us brambles? Why give the sweet, fat Lord Blackberry such vicious household guards?
In the light of day, the farmer was in no small part relieved when he found his milk pail, empty alas, but intact. And soon it was filled with berries. He was about to embark on his climb back up to the road, when he noticed something else. He hadn’t seen it the night before, so black was its shell. But there it was. Amidst a sea of splintered, obsidian shards.
A stone. No. An egg. Large. Larger than any egg he’d seen before. A shell shiny and black and jagged, as though it were made of cut glass. And more. It was warm. Warm, inside.
“A little one,” the farmer said aloud. He felt nervous suddenly. As though this were a trick or a trap. People didn’t just find fald eggs on the side of the road. Not once had that happened to anyone he knew. Ever. This was new. A new thing. Happening just for him. The farmer ill-liked that, he ill-trusted, he ill, ill… it was just ill. All of it.”
If there are any follow-up questions, please feel free to ask. First time posting a job on PPH, rather than desperately trying to nab one, so it’s all new to me!
Please apply with as many portfolio pieces, examples, recommendations, as you can/like. You can’t show off too much, in my eyes.
Thank you for your time.
J
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