Cover to Cover

[solarbird]

Funny thing about working on CD booklets – you get ideas.

Light cover

Dark cover

Opinions?

Of course, the music’s the important thing. And that is finished, and available for immediate download and CD preorder!

Mirrored from Crime and the Blog of Evil.

Comments

[nijibug]

I vote dark!

[solarbird]

Hee, that's fast. ^_^

[maellenkleth]

Dark, of course. It's a matter of truth in advertising.

[solarbird]

This is totally the problem with headcanon. I think what's going on here is that this makes other people see the story I already have in my head.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

I prefer the dark cover with one caveat: my eye is immediately pulled to the large white highlight on the hair, which isn't the focus of the image. If you shaded that a little, the shadow thing is awesomesauce.

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

Ditto!

[solarbird]

After reading this, I tried a bunch of different ways to town it down a bit, all of it ended up looking weird in other ways, so I'm gonna have to go with it as it is. I still think the dark version is better tho'. Thanks!

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Yeah, either way, the dark version has more style to it.

[tereshkova2001.livejournal.com]

I like the dark cover better as well.
You said you'll have discs at Norwescon? I'll be sure to track you down and get one then. I have a thing in favor of physical media.

[solarbird]

I'm hoping other people still care about physical media too - the real point of advance orders is so I have some idea how many to print up.

But yeah, barring asteroid impact, I'll have physical discs hopefully before Norwescon, but certainly at Norwescon. Thanks!

[blues-kun.livejournal.com]

Dark cover pops way better and makes your shading more obvious. Looks great to me actually. The other one looks kinda flat.

Hope you sell a lot!

[solarbird]

Thanks! In the original drawing she's from, it's framed all differently so undrawn background - which in my headcanon was always there, and I'm not even making that up - would've been weird and distracting. But in this framing, it makes sense to make an explicit one. It actually makes this composition weighted more like the original. ^_^

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

I like the dark cover better. More depth and more brooding and sinister ;)

[solarbird]

Yep! She's an assassin!

Thanks ^_^

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

Dark cover pops.

[solarbird]

Thanks! I hope other people react well to it too.

[sksouth.livejournal.com]

Dark.

[solarbird]

It seems to be universal. Thanks!

[silussa.livejournal.com]

Dark cover. Definitely.

[solarbird]

It's a mandate!

I honestly thought some people would prefer the light version. Not so much! XD

[silussa.livejournal.com]

Just an offhanded thought...

I'm not sure if light and fluffy types exactly would follow elfmetal. :)

[quen-elf.livejournal.com]

Unsurprisingly, I'm going to say 'dark' as well. :) With one other caveat apart from the hair shading others mentioned: it makes the 'forces of evil' very hard to see, which since it's disconnected from the other text, is pretty critical.. So basically I would go for dark... but LESS dark. Maybe 50%. :)

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Either that, or brighten the drop shadow on those letters, so they pop a bit more.

[saladofdoom.livejournal.com]

I think the red drop shadow is a good color (at least on my monitor.) If you wanted to bring it out more, you could maybe extend the bottom (like a drip starting) on the drop shadow on the 'e' in die?

[solarbird]

Interesting. It pops pretty well on my monitors here. I'm fiddling with it tho'.

[callibr8]

Definitely the dark cover. Fits both the "forces of evil" and "must die" themes far, far better.

Yay for music being done!!