New Covers!

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Finally started making new covers for yrae stuff :D Still waiting primarily on the yrae feathers for SH (and also Desert Sapphire, but let's be real, they're for the girls) and autumn for pretty much all the Llayan ones, but I've got half of them down :D

So I have my red sand for Raykin-based stories, yellow sand for Llayad, white for as-yet-unwritten Tsayth stories... Kazin has always been green. Green sand is not a thing that exists. WHAT DO I USE TO IDENTIFY KAZIN? Moss is a green ground covering maybe but all the moss around here is kind of fugly and I don't want to muck up my pretty parchment with actual dirt. Black sand, maybe? Gum leaves? There's just nothing to tie it in with the Raykinian, Llayan, Tsaythi sand. Damn you, Kazin.


I'm so pleased with that dagger. It was sold on ebay as an 'ancient' dagger with fake tarnish as you can see on the hilt, and I scrubbed as much of it off the blade as I could. Very solid brass or whatever it is, so perfect.


I made arrows 8D They're really shit. They're bent, one has a giant lump in the middle and the fletching and heads are barely attached, but they look right enough. The letter opener/daggers are nothing like how I have the purple shirts' daggers designed but whatever, man. Daggers are hard to find and expensive when you do, so a couple of $3 letter openers are as good as you get, boys. Also that damn title is really hard to fit on stuff. Considering renaming it to one or two words. Growl.


Flannel flowers don't exist in South Australia. I didn't realise this when I gave her that moniker, which I'm sure came because I knew I wanted to make her in GW and would need to give her two names >> So. Made a bouquet out of the Bouquet instead. These are all flowers picked from around my place. The banksia (fuzzy green/yellow one up the very top), grevillea (limp and dying red ones) and correa (the three little tubular pink ones in the middle) all exist in the current Bouquet. I have no idea what the others are. I'm kinda just guessing they're natives but, tbh, I don't care--if they look like they could be Australian natives, then they are in Kazin.
(Also I used gum leaves up the top, but with the bouquet there was too much happening, so, just bouquet with weapons for this one. It has green feathers and leaves, that's pretty obvious.)


Or, more accurately, grass, more grass and flour. YEP. The barley is probably the weakest of the lot but I have no idea where to find barley fields in SA. Actually this is my favourite cover. It has the exact feel I was going for.


Finding a griffin feather was really quite awkward. All the feathers from craft shops and places are brightly coloured and obviously dyed (like the green and red fletching on my arrows) so finding something that looks like an eagle feather was HARD. I do like the patterning on this one, though. Llayan griffins are more eagle/serval, small animals, so the speckling works with the serval aspect.

Comments

[little-lynnet.livejournal.com]

ooooooooooooooooooooooh. Those are gorgeous. <3

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Hee thank you my darling! I've been so excited to get started on these <3

[drazzi.livejournal.com]

MORE LLAYAD STORY COVERS OK?

I love the theme though. That they're all connected and similar. So gorgeous.

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Llayan covers will come in autumn because they're the one thing I can't just pilfer off of Etsy or Ebay XD And I'm waiting on a delivery for Tooth and Claw so I can make that one as soon as that arrives.

So much fun designing these things 8D

[silvanime.livejournal.com]

Wow, these look fantastic! You have done such a great job with them. I do like the sand.

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The sand was the easy part XD

[silvanime.livejournal.com]

I was just noticing you needed a solution for green. The black dirt might be a good substitute, particularly if it is dry. You could also possibly dry, then crumble some green leaves. It might not give you a real vivid green, but that might be a positive for a background element. What about pine or casuarina needles?

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Ooh casuarina needles would be great! Pull apart the little segments and scatter them around. That'd be perfect, thank you for that idea!

[silvanime.livejournal.com]

Glad I could help. I feel like so often all I do is say "Ooo... pretty thing!"

[ladylight.livejournal.com]

They look gorgeous, Narti! All that treasure-hunting on the nets paid off XD

[annarti.livejournal.com]

It has indeed :D I just need one more thing--the yrae feathers, which I THINK are being made right now. My designs are apparently too complicated for mother of pearl so they'll just be bone, but that's still very cool 8D