Squares: Yearning, Meta, Triadic Colours, Hand Drawn

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Description: Over a granulated pink background, a brown hand and a white hand, in black & white/sketch effect, fingers barely touching.

Square: Yearning
Link: [Podfic] I die of love for you, but keep this secret
Fandom: The Old Guard

I had no idea what to do for this square for a long time, & then I found the perfect story! TOG is one of those rare fandoms where the main pairing has a person of colour in it, so it was very important to not to use two white hands obviously -- it was so hard to find a picture for this that was not 1) a handshake or 2) obviously a man holding a woman's hand. In the end I manipped the hands from a colour photograph of a black man & a white man and used the sketch effect & b&w effect to get the right result.




Description: An all-text cover, with white text spelling out the title in 50 different languages and scripts as a background. The credits are announced in foreign languages, with the title overlaid on top.

Square: Meta
Link: as an ancient city
Fandom: The Old Guard

This story is all about being multilingual and using various languages without even realizing. I used -- I think -- 53 different translations of the title in the background, and tried to make the credits blend in *enough* but also not *too much.* I'm really quite pleased with the result!




Description: Swoopy white text over a kaleidoscope of bright colours.

Square: Triadic Colours
Link: Illustrious Pagans
Fandom: The Old Guard

This is a story about getting high AF, so it was the perfect time to use slightly brighter/more psychedelic colours! I started with a triadic palette and applied the "crystallize" effect in Paint.net, which gave me this pattern in the end. It's not *only* triadic but hey, they're in there!!




Description: A hand-drawn sketch of a faucet leaking, over a blue-green watercolour background.

Square: Hand Drawn
Link: An eagle's old age, a sparrow's youth
Fandom: The Old Guard

I dislike drawing because I'm bad at it, so I was dreading this square a lot, but in the end I managed to copy from a reference picture using my shitty tablet, and it wasn't as terrible an experience as I thought it would be! :p The story's main identifying feature is that there's a faucet dripping in the background of the PWP, so I went with a water theme and water-colour background.

Now can I fill 8 more squares by the end of the week?? Good thing there's "no podfic" on there because I'm about to make a bunch of covers with nothing attached! :p

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