#030
MAY 19, 2024

hello everyone 🤓 star here. hope everyone is having a nice day! i'm back for the first time in a few months with new covers and... to no-one's surprise... they're all red. lol. you will have to take this colour from my cold, dead hands. I WILL NEVER STOP USING THE COLOUR RED!!! EVEN WHEN YOU'RE SICK OF IT!! EVEN WHEN I DIE!!

without further ado...

first up is a cover theme for the lovely taryn / rottengrave. taryn, also known as metalbenders, writes her original fiction on her rottengrave account!! she didn't ask for these covers but i was procrastinating (and still am procrastinating, #LOL #LoveMyLife #AcademicWeapon) soooo... it had to be done. i have also made most of her fanfiction covers, and like those ones these original fiction ones are primarily red. i would personally break down all of these covers but idk. it seems pretty straightforward to me. same red used throughout, same fonts (mostly? i kind of lost the plot towards the end.) i will say, it was a challenge keeping everything cohesive with the colour scheme while still making each cover work for its respective genre. if taryn loves something it's experimenting... i however do not liking doing that.

hence all the red.

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these next few covers are for girlpools' fic, year of damnation. i have actually known of yod for quite some time but haven't gotten the chance to make anything for it; when i put out an open request to some mutuals, i was pleased to get one from eden! yod is a tom riddle story, and as many of you may know i don't tend to dabble in potterverse fics, writing wise or graphics wise. so this was a fun experimentation. the first cover, seen above, was a simple-manip hybrid type cover. i couldn't figure out the title treatment on the x axis so i decided to flip things around a little. the font was chosen to evoke a more retro-y look, which doesn't... yeah, it doesn't really make sense for a tom riddle fic LMAO but i've been into it lately! 🤠

another cover for yod. i made multiple as, again, procrastinating. this one was inspired by 70s horror novel covers and movie posters. i was looking for any excuse to use a gothic, fraktur-y font. so i did. i also held back on the use of red in this cover, which is a step in the right direction for me, i think. less is more!

this cover is not really that special LMAO but i'm posting it anyway. it's different because it has a splash of blood!! Ha ha ha ha ha. i don't know too much about the tom riddle era of hp, but in my head i associate it heavily with dark academia. which i associate with classics (thanks, donna tartt.) which i associate with penguin! added a splash of blood for flavour. yum.

eden said she likes helvetica but I ONLY SUPPORT ARIAL SO. BOOOOOOOO 🍅. jokes aside, i did want to do something more modern, hence.... whatever is going on with this cover. it's a bit basic, but i like it. and, again, trying to hold back with the red.

BUT NOT FOR THIS ONE!!!!! yes i just flipped the overlay over. i don't know. when i made it it made a lot of sense. if i'm going to do one thing it's flood a cover with red and then put black font over it. it's one of my signatures. and i mean that. look at literally anything i've made in the last 12 months. holy shit. you won't be able to escape.

my insane and not-informative comments aside, eden i hope you like these covers. thank you for giving me the opportunity to make them for you!

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and last but definitely not least! a cover for my beautiful best friend kat's brand-new 9-1-1 fic, crush! kat always gives me free rein for the covers i make her, but of course due to the subject matter of both the fic and the tv show (which i still need to properly get into!!) i did have some bases to cover. notice the smoke and flames at the right side. i really wanted to use red (what a fucking surprise) but sparingly; i think it was effective here to juxtapose kat's protagonist, sloane, and her love interest, the ever-gorgeous buck. i did not expect to love that man but i do. in general, i like what i was able to do with this cover; i didn't want it to be too decayed, but i'm a big fan of how the smokey-grain-whatever's-going-on-here turned out.

if you haven't read crush, you definitely should. kat's plots are always so unique yet comforting and sloane and buck's relationship is so interesting! i can't wait to see it charted. besides, a fic named after an ethel cain song is always a banger. if you haven't watch 9-1-1 yet either, i implore you to watch it. a baby gets flushed down the toilet!

as always, thank you for reading, and thank you for your ongoing support!