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darkemeralds) wrote2017-03-02 10:04 am
darkemeralds) wrote2017-03-02 10:04 am
Cover Art
I need a book cover!
There are quickie template-based designs online, and there's $5000 for original artwork, and there's not much in between.
"Well, what do you want to wind up with?" asked my sister Helen.
"Basically this," said I:
"...but a) without Jared Padalecki's face; b) not stolen from a copyright fashion shoot with Johnny Depp; and c) featuring a poet shirt and buckskin breeches rather than that 20th century tuxedo."
"So let's do our own photoshoot."
Well, why not? We have cameras. Everybody has a camera. We have tripods and lights and friends and junk shops and Craigslist. What the hell.
All we need is a tall, lanky red-haired model. And a high-backed wing chair. And some gold brocade. And a poet shirt. Some yellowish pants. A riding crop. A few gew-gaws that can pass for Georgian ornaments.
Yesterday I found the chair on Craigslist--twenty bucks! And they delivered it in an hour!
(Just add gold brocade)
...so, feeling lucky, I went to the Rebuilding Center and came back with some ornamental junk for under $10.
...and then I found this thing at the corner resale shop. Weighs a ton!
Still to come:
There are quickie template-based designs online, and there's $5000 for original artwork, and there's not much in between.
"Well, what do you want to wind up with?" asked my sister Helen.
"Basically this," said I:
"...but a) without Jared Padalecki's face; b) not stolen from a copyright fashion shoot with Johnny Depp; and c) featuring a poet shirt and buckskin breeches rather than that 20th century tuxedo."
"So let's do our own photoshoot."
Well, why not? We have cameras. Everybody has a camera. We have tripods and lights and friends and junk shops and Craigslist. What the hell.
All we need is a tall, lanky red-haired model. And a high-backed wing chair. And some gold brocade. And a poet shirt. Some yellowish pants. A riding crop. A few gew-gaws that can pass for Georgian ornaments.
Yesterday I found the chair on Craigslist--twenty bucks! And they delivered it in an hour!
(Just add gold brocade)
...so, feeling lucky, I went to the Rebuilding Center and came back with some ornamental junk for under $10.
...and then I found this thing at the corner resale shop. Weighs a ton!
Still to come:
- Large quantities of gold brocade
- Drippy candles
- An oriental style rug
- That poet shirt
- A model
no subject
And it's actually a fairly comfortable chair. It might be worth having reupholstered. On the other hand, for $20, I can afford to hot-glue and staple and screw and pin things onto it for the shoot, and then put it out for someone else to cart off.
The curtains you describe would be perfect. That's exactly the sort of thing I'm going hunting for at Goodwill this afternoon.