Hello everyone!
I just wanted to let everyone know about a new superhero fantasy series I have started.
Amazon.com: Terminals book one: Transformation eBook: Thomas Cardin: Kindle Store
This is a short read available through Amazon on the Kindle for $0.99
Jill Hammond is a teenage...
Thank you for your interest, deilaitha. They are indeed available through amazon in kindle and paperback.
I am thrilled to hear about your reaction to the covers, thank you very much.
Thank you Aklian. Each of my covers for the Gifts of Vorallon trilogy show a pivotal scene from their relative book. In the case of The Lord of Vengeance there is actually a great deal more going on in the relevant scene of the book. I mocked it up in dozens of ways but it was always way too...
To help promote the Final Warden, and the whole Gifts of Vorallon trilogy, I have declared May, 'Demon a Day' month. Each day in May I will draw a different demon from the story and post it on my blog. Here is a sample Demon that snuck in here:
To find out more about 'Demon a Day' month, and...
A big round soft edged brush, tap tap tap. An input device with pressure sensitivity is key. The squiggles are are with a small hard edged brush with transparency set to pressure.. I did a layer of orange then an tighter layer of yellow dots and streaks on top.
I am happy with this piece...Lorace dreams of chasing a golden butterfly that bursts into bright gold sparks.
This was an hour start to finish. I was quite surprised it went so fast, mostly due to my getting the hand and arm down "just right" in just a few strokes of color. 75% of that hour...
From what I am finding out in my research on the subject of covers-
A traditional publisher would provide your cover art, and I am sure they could take what you have as the theme -- if it is in their estimate that it would help sell your book.
If you are self publishing, or have a smaller...
I have a very nice machine at work that I do my personal painting on after hours. And yeah I did these covers at print resolution.
I do a lot of motion graphics and that requires a hell of a workhorse machine. I also use a Wacom Cintiq - I think it's the first 21 inch model they made. I use a...
I throw away beginnings a lot. I am sure part of it is me second guessing myself. My first story had something like five cliches in the opening paragraph: character waking from a dream that was a prophecy. In the very next paragraph they navel gazed to describe themselves. In the third paragraph...
Digital painting is painting using the computer software as the artists medium.
Here is a demo of a drawing a dragon on youtube. The artist is drawing and painting a dragon in realtime using photoshop and a stylus, an input device held in the hand exactly as one holds a pen or a brush.
That's...
Had to sign up to check that out. From what I can see, that's all digital painting. Some of it appears painted over the top of photosource, but I see lots of telling brushstrokes. If it were watercolor or pastels there would be textures of the paper underneath--nearly impossible to remove...