I apologize for the lack of fantastic blogs and complete lack of podcasts this month. This is the second-to-last week before finals for my college, so the stress is getting to me a little bit. It’s very hard to be creative when you’re trying to save the entire semester. So I may not be doing as many blogs this next week, or any blogs this next week.
My illustrator and I are kind of in the same…
I apologize for the lack of fantastic blogs and complete lack of podcasts this month. This is the second-to-last week before finals for my college, so the stress is getting to me a little bit. It’s very hard to be creative when you’re trying to save the entire semester. So I may not be doing as many blogs this next week, or any blogs this next week.
My illustrator and I are kind of in the same position, although she actually is getting more illustrations out. So you may be seeing a new one pretty soon. I’m pretty excited about that one. But, honestly, I’m more excited about the concept drawings for the different characters. I decided to give her only basic concepts of what the characters looked like so that I can see new faces for the characters instead of the ones I imagined. Not everybody sees the characters the exact same way, and that’s just fine. My reader doesn’t even have to agree with the illustration if they don’t like it. And that’s just fine. Everybody thinking the exact same thing is boring. I’m not a huge fan of boring.
But if you’re having a really hard day today, I’ve got something for you. It’s one of my favorite songs from an anime called Big O. Big O a lot of great songs in its soundtrack, but not all of them have a saxophone. Put some RainyMood in there as well, and you’re golden. Maybe it’s just me that needs RainyMood to hear this, but hey! Who knows? So chill down with some smooth jazz and let your worries pass you by.
For these next two minutes, don’t think about exams. Don’t think about work. Just chill. It’s an awesome thing to do from time to time. 🙂
The illustrator for the Dark Veil series officially has a WordPress website! Check it out here. It hosts mainly photographs so far, but she is also quite talented in the area of painting and sketching. She’s just a very wonderfully talented person who’s trying to get a start on this wonderful web hoster that is WordPress.
Here’s some images of hers to get you an idea of how good she is.
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The illustrator for the Dark Veil series officially has a WordPress website! Check it out here. It hosts mainly photographs so far, but she is also quite talented in the area of painting and sketching. She’s just a very wonderfully talented person who’s trying to get a start on this wonderful web hoster that is WordPress.
Here’s some images of hers to get you an idea of how good she is.
Sadly, most of this is older stuff, but you can see her newer photos on her blog! She’s heavily into the surrealism scene, so it shows in her work all the time. Check her out and give her a follow if you like!
You guys get to see this before anyone else; besides Tumblr, the very first place this was shared for the novel. It is the most darndest official image for the species “the shadow” that there is. The illustrator decided a photo illustration was a good way to start this off, and she was right. Boy, was she right.
Before anyone asks, it is not based off of Dark Crystal. I do like the film, but that was not the inspiration for this. It was purely a mix of my own and the illustrator’s thoughts. Gorgeous.
Official image of the species “the shadow” for my upcoming book Dark Soldier. You guys on Tumblr are the first to see it!
(image by Annika Sams © 2015)
So as it turns out, my illustrator sent me a photo/photomanip/illustration to give me an idea of the style that she’s doing for illustrations in the book. Those won’t be photos, but this photo makes me beyond happy. Hope you all enjoy a little sneak peak. I’m madly in love.
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
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