Madgic omnibus cover in progress!
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lb_leeMori: I'm working on the Madgic omnibus again, which means I had to make a cover for it! Here's what I've got so far...
The colors need to be adapted; I might just grab the B/W version and colorize it; I'm happier with that version's contrast balance.
Obviously the cover was going to have a hand on it; that's how I did all the floppy installment covers. And I knew I wanted it to mostly be yellow because we're working through our comics/zines trade paperbacks in rainbow order. (Homeless Year was red, Alter Boys in Love pink, and AllFam orange.) But other than that, I wasn't sure.
Then I rediscovered this old drawing our original girl did in 2002:
(Ignore the title; I added that digitally for layout prep purposes.)
This drawing was not a happy one. I remember the original girl made it because she felt like she was empty and hollow, straining to reach for colors but unable to take them into herself. We don't feel that way anymore, and I wanted the new Madgic cover to reflect that. The opposite color to that gold color was a deep indigo, and then it all clicked into place.
One of the additions I'm making to the omnibus is a couple pages entitled "Celestial Bodies," something I originally had to cut for length, about the births and deaths of stars as a giant scientific blood sacrifice to bring life to the universe, how all the elements that make up everything we know, including our bodies, are corpses of long-dead stars. (The more poetic version of this is the saying "we are all made of stardust," but I always found that a mealy-mouthed, sanitized version of reality. We are the walking remnants of dead gods.) And thus, the hand became (part of) a celestial body.
We chose the peachy gold because those are the often the colors the bony lady wears, and she's a major player in this book. I even color-picked for the cover those from this old watercolor illustration we did of her and Falcon, which we plan to use for the back cover:
(When I told her I was making zines about her, she said, "Have fun with that," in the tone of someone who doesn't understand but wants to be encouraging.)
But as I was working, I realized that hellfire is also a major player in the book, as is my deceased rage ghost form, which is charred black... plus that deep blue-black is Rawlin's color, and the godseeds that ate him alive are always pure white. So the illustration called back to each floppy installment.
I'm pretty pleased and glad to pay homage to our deceased original. Rest in peace, my good bitch.
The colors need to be adapted; I might just grab the B/W version and colorize it; I'm happier with that version's contrast balance.
Obviously the cover was going to have a hand on it; that's how I did all the floppy installment covers. And I knew I wanted it to mostly be yellow because we're working through our comics/zines trade paperbacks in rainbow order. (Homeless Year was red, Alter Boys in Love pink, and AllFam orange.) But other than that, I wasn't sure.
Then I rediscovered this old drawing our original girl did in 2002:
(Ignore the title; I added that digitally for layout prep purposes.)
This drawing was not a happy one. I remember the original girl made it because she felt like she was empty and hollow, straining to reach for colors but unable to take them into herself. We don't feel that way anymore, and I wanted the new Madgic cover to reflect that. The opposite color to that gold color was a deep indigo, and then it all clicked into place.
One of the additions I'm making to the omnibus is a couple pages entitled "Celestial Bodies," something I originally had to cut for length, about the births and deaths of stars as a giant scientific blood sacrifice to bring life to the universe, how all the elements that make up everything we know, including our bodies, are corpses of long-dead stars. (The more poetic version of this is the saying "we are all made of stardust," but I always found that a mealy-mouthed, sanitized version of reality. We are the walking remnants of dead gods.) And thus, the hand became (part of) a celestial body.
We chose the peachy gold because those are the often the colors the bony lady wears, and she's a major player in this book. I even color-picked for the cover those from this old watercolor illustration we did of her and Falcon, which we plan to use for the back cover:
(When I told her I was making zines about her, she said, "Have fun with that," in the tone of someone who doesn't understand but wants to be encouraging.)
But as I was working, I realized that hellfire is also a major player in the book, as is my deceased rage ghost form, which is charred black... plus that deep blue-black is Rawlin's color, and the godseeds that ate him alive are always pure white. So the illustration called back to each floppy installment.
I'm pretty pleased and glad to pay homage to our deceased original. Rest in peace, my good bitch.
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Date: 2024-11-25 12:24 am (UTC)