{"id":1832,"date":"2014-09-08T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandraandwoo.com\/gaia\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2014-09-06T13:48:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T11:48:51","slug":"chapter-covers-from-sketch-to-finished-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sandraandwoo.com\/gaia\/2014\/09\/08\/chapter-covers-from-sketch-to-finished-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter covers \u2013 From sketch to finished version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here you can see how the covers for the last three chapters were created.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The first column shows the drafts that Powree sent me to request further feedback. The tower was drawn after several initial sketches to determine its final design. The other two images are the very first sketches of each cover. The missing \u201cl\u201d in \u201cJael Bara\u201d is a typo.<\/li>\n<li>The second column shows the versions that Powree sent me after she had finished drawing.<\/li>\n<li>The third column shows the final version of each cover. As you can see I\u2019ve changed the look of each page quite a bit by adding or changing visual effects.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/the-tower-in-the-sky-cover-draft.png\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/tn-240-the-tower-in-the-sky-cover-draft.png\" alt=\"The Tower in the Sky Cover \u2013 Draft\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"34%\"><a href=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/the-tower-in-the-sky-cover-preliminary-version.png\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/tn-240-the-tower-in-the-sky-cover-preliminary-version.png\" alt=\"The Tower in the Sky Cover \u2013 Preliminary version\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"\/gaia\/comics\/2013-03-29-the-tower-in-the-sky-cover.png\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/tn-240-the-tower-in-the-sky-cover.png\" alt=\"The Tower in the Sky Cover \u2013 Finished version\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/the-letter-of-jael-bara-cover-draft.png\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/tn-240-the-letter-of-jael-bara-cover-draft.png\" alt=\"The Letter of Jael Bara \u2013 Draft\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"34%\"><a href=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/the-letter-of-jael-bara-cover-preliminary-version.png\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/tn-240-the-letter-of-jael-bara-cover-preliminary-version.png\" alt=\"The Letter of Jael Bara \u2013 Preliminary version\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"\/gaia\/comics\/2013-11-08-the-letter-of-jael-bara-cover.png\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/tn-240-the-letter-of-jael-bara-cover.png\" alt=\"The Letter of Jael Bara \u2013 Finished version\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/breaking-all-barriers-cover-draft.png\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/tn-240-breaking-all-barriers-cover-draft.png\" alt=\"Breaking All Barriers \u2013 Draft\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"34%\"><a href=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/breaking-all-barriers-cover-preliminary-version.png\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/tn-240-breaking-all-barriers-cover-preliminary-version.png\" alt=\"Breaking All Barriers \u2013 Preliminary version\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"\/gaia\/comics\/2014-09-07-breaking-all-barriers-cover.png\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gaia\/images\/artwork\/tn-240-breaking-all-barriers-cover.png\" alt=\"Breaking All Barriers \u2013 Finished version\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here you can see how the covers for the last three chapters were created. The first column shows the drafts that Powree sent me to request further feedback. The tower was drawn after several initial sketches to determine its final design. The other two images are the very first sketches of each cover. The missing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandraandwoo.com\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandraandwoo.com\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandraandwoo.com\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandraandwoo.com\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandraandwoo.com\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandraandwoo.com\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandraandwoo.com\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandraandwoo.com\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandraandwoo.com\/gaia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}