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Description: A background grid of images including a candlelit set dinner table, a plate of oysters, a meal of Chinese food with someone with chopsticks picking up pieces of meat, and two hockey players taking a face off overlayed with a shape with rounded corners with the title and credit on top.

Square: Grid
Fandom: Women's Hockey RPF
Podfic: Best Served Warm
Credit: A customized preset template from Canva, under the Social Media section. Original title: "Seafood for a Good Mood" (lmk if there's an actual way to link Canva presets; nothing I tried worked!)
Title font: Rye
Credit font: Glacial Indifference

Notes: I wanted to visually show how, in the story, these two women keep going out to eat together in an accidentally dating plot. So many pictures of food to go through to find ones that I felt suited! This might have ended up a little bit better if I hadn't gone with the Canva stock images, but there's only so much stock image searching before you start to lose it imo.

Description: A simple worksheet with a thick light blue borer and the title and credits set up as the header of the paper. The questions below are "What's the best sex you've ever had?" and "Why was it special?" Both questions have an accompanying answer box in light grey.

Square: Minimalism
Fandom: Men's Hockey RPF
Podfic: The Christian Foundations of Healthy Spirituality: A Worksheet for Men
Credit: A customized preset template from Canva, under the Worksheet section, cropped to be a square. Original Title: "My Book Report"
Font: Glacial Indifference in different weights

Notes: The catalyst for this story about a sexuality crisis is a worksheet about sexuality, so I thought it would be fun to make a recreation of that. The trick was trying to find something that wasn't straight boring black and white, while not being to childishly colorful. (Seriously, they could have worked, but I could not bring myself to defile something that originally about like, counting dinosaurs.)

eafay70

Description: On a white background, a hand-drawn black cat.
All text is handwritten in black ink.
Top left line of text, above the cat: The Cat
Top right line of text, also above the cat: written by: KittyCargo
Second right line of text, next to the cat: read by:
On subsequent right lines of text, indented:
eafay70
LittleRedRobinHood
MistbornHero
Ravin

Link to the podfic: "The Cat"
Harry Potter, rated T, NAWA; podfic recorded as a tag game in Voiceteam 2020

Credits:
Drawn/written by hand with a black pen (brand unknown) on a blank piece of printer paper, then photographed with my Samsung phone and cropped with the phone's Gallery app

Notes: Not much to say here! A simple cover for a very nice podfic. :)

I'm going to use my cheat from June (comment on the "cover/words/collab" post) to replace "cover cold (no/limited knowledge of the story)" with "analogous colors."

Movement	~~Cover cold (no/limited knowledge of the story)~~ Analogous colors	Details	Collaborate w/ 1 or more artist	Hand drawn
Minimalist	Hair	Anti-you cover	Abstract	Arts and crafts
Lonely	~~archiveofourown.org/works/18215045~~ Complementary colors	FREE SPACE	Dadaism	Asymmetry
Cover first	~~i.ebayimg.com/images/i/261841738633-0-1/s-l1000.jpg~~ Triadic colors	Sparkles/glitter/shimmer	Social media	Monochrome
Multimedia	No podfic	Xkcd	Comic sans	Grid

ofjustimagine

Description: A supernatural blue and pink sunset over a mountain range, overlaid with black textures with arrows and numbers that look like they could be a part of a building plan.

Square: Cold Cover
Fandom: Original Works
Link: How To Get Into the Krixin Resort
Credits:
Texture Pack #1 by the_redwaterfall (Google is failing me so I think they might have deleted, but hmu if you want a copy!)
Font: Al Nile

Notes: I picked a random podfic from the "Cover Art Wanted" tag on AO3 and thought it might be fun to try an Original Work! The tags/description on the podfic were along the lines of aliens + heists, so I tried to roll with adding some textures that felt like they might be a part of like, building plans. (Every good heist needs building plans, right?)

Description: A redheaded man wearing a red sweatshirt with "Hamilton #19" on the back stands in front of "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by George Surat at the Art Institute of Chicago. An adaptation on the famous shot from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Square: Hair
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Link: Impressionism
Credits:
A recreation of the Ferris Bueller shot by reddit user gLove23
Jersey and "Written By"/"Read By" font: Jersey 54
Title and credit font: Jolly (demo version)

Notes: The podfic/fic is a riff off of a hockey in joke about Dougie Hamilton preferring to go to museums instead of going out with his teammates.
So I decided to riff off of the most famous museum scene I could think of. (Also I just moved back to Chicago and it's killing me that I haven't been able to go to the Art Institute yet!) Throwing this under the hair square because I played a lot with fixing that guy's hair to make it more Dougie-ish, and I'm still not fully satisfied with it. I spent more time hair editing than sweatshirt editing!

babelghoti

Description: a picture of white seafoam with a narrow black frame and the words "written by skazka", "read by BabelGhoti" and "no maiden land" in black

Squares: unsplash.com/photos/T9Gsevu_N8Y

Podfic: [podfic] no maiden land

Credits:
Original pic: unsplash.com/photos/T9Gsevu_N8Y
Fonts: Life Savers, Henry Morgan Hand (Pixlr)

babelghoti

Description: Embroidery on white canvas stretched over a wooden hoop representing two soundwaves. The first one, in green, says 'I Smell Children', the second one, in orange, says 'Ich Wittere Kind'.

Squares: Arts & Crafts, New Genre, No Text, Someone Else's Podfic
Podfic: [Podfic] I Smell Children - Ich Wittere Kind
Art: [embroidery] I Smell Children - Ich Wittere Kind

This was my Remixapod entry and, well, it could totally work as a cover (hey, the title is on it)! It's definitely a new genre for me, both of cover and of embroidery.
The soundwaves represent the titles of each version of Annapods's bilingual podfic.

I used my May challenge cheat to swap "Xkcd" for "No text"

And that's a bingo for me!

greedy_dancer

I fully blanked on posting my covers here, so here are a bunch!

( Collab w/ 1 or more artist )

( Art nouveau )

( Collab w/ 1 or more podder )

( Comic sans )

( New genre )

( Different versions + new take on an old cover )

( Cover first )

( New technique )

( My table )

eafay70

Description: On a white background, two trees (solid green triangles on top of solid brown rectangles) of similar height and width with space between them. Beneath the left tree is a dark blue curve to represent a river. At the bottom of the right tree's trunk is a thick orange mark.
Top line of text (blue), above the trees: Tree-related shenanigans
Second line of text (burgundy, left align), under the river: Pine (me a) river
Third line of text (burgundy, right algin): Missing the tree for the forest
Bottom line of text (same blue as the top line of text): written by Liffis read by eafay70
All text is Lucida Calligraphy

Link to the podfic: "Tree-related shenanigans"
Hockey RPF, rated T, NAWA

Credits:
Made using Paint (which came with my laptop)
Font is Lucida Calligraphy (which also came with my laptop)
Colors from this FAQ page about the Colorado Avalanche (for whom the main characters play), converted to RBG by the Color Finder on the Pantone website

Notes: I made this cover, realized it didn't clearly match any of the square on my card, and decided to use the Free Space as an excuse to talk about it anyway!

This cover art is for a podfic of a series consisting of two fics, so I started by making two trees in Paint. I aimed for roughly the same height and width, but didn't make them identical because the stories aren't identical.

I put the river under the first tree because of the first story's title. Then I put an orange mark in the trunk of the second tree to represent the key event of the second story: the POV character, who is colorblind, puts on color-correcting glasses and is stunned by the orange color of the other character's hair.

As I often do for Hockey RPF cover art, I used the team's colors for the font colors. Since the top line is the series title, I made it larger than the middle lines, which are the titles of each fic. I used burgundy for the fic titles because I felt it looked better so close to the river.

That should be everything! Please let me know if something needs clarifying. :)

I apparently never used my cheat from April (comment on the resources post), so I'll use it now to replace "archiveofourown.org/works/18215045" with "complemantary colors."

Movement	Cover cold (no/limited knowledge of the story)	Details	Collaborate w/ 1 or more artist	Hand drawn
Minimalist	Hair	Anti-you cover	Abstract	Arts and crafts
Lonely	~~archiveofourown.org/works/18215045~~ Complementary colors	FREE SPACE	Dadaism	Asymmetry
Cover first	~~i.ebayimg.com/images/i/261841738633-0-1/s-l1000.jpg~~ Triadic colors	Sparkles/glitter/shimmer	Social media	Monochrome
Multimedia	No podfic	Xkcd	Comic sans	Grid

annapods

Cover for Torch This Place We Know, for the “multimedia” square of the cover artist bingo 2020.
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Covers for Coming back for even more, for the “different versions” square of the cover artist bingo 2020.
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Cover for This doesn’t look that much different from home, for the “bloomsandfoliage.tumblr.com” square of the cover artist bingo 2020.
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annapods

Covers:
There is already a cover art request post in this comm (https://poddersundercover.dreamwidth.org/779.html) and you can still use the other one of course. Additionally, you might want to use/check out the “podfic cover art welcome” and “cover art welcome” tags on ao3. But you can only get your monthly bingo cheat by using this post here.

Things you might want to mention: fandom, ships/characters, pairing, tropes, content notes, length, if the audio is available and where/how, visual elements and possible cover ideas, time restrictions if any, …

Words:
Alternatively, do you have a cover in need of some words to tell its story? Can be a cover for a specific fic without a podfic, a cover that sets up a as-of-yet unexplored premise, a cover for a general setting or tropes that could apply to any fandom, …

You might want to mention whether you’d edit the text of the cover yourself, or pass on the raw file, and if so in which format.

Collabs:
Do you have an idea for a cover you’d like to make a collab in some way or another? Or would you like to announce that you'd like to collab, and the project can be decided together? Same post!

ginandchthonic

Podfic cover showing a rough dark blue circle containing a green sketch of mountains, with the words Middle Earth Hallelujah, a filk by EstherA2J, sung by CompassRose arranged in a semicircle around it

Description: A square podfic cover with a light yellow background, showing a green sketch of a mountain landscape on a rough dark violet-blue circle, with title and credits in a semicircle around it.

Square: inside this moment (colour palette)
A colour palette including pale yellow, yellow-green, medium green, and two shades of dark violet blue

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ofjustimagine

Description: A watercolor mash of blues, pinks, purples, and golds. A line of flowers is placed upside down from the top of the frame.

Square: Dadaism
Link: From the Winter, Spring
Fandom: Once Upon A Time
Credits:
Texture park by evenstarss @ DeviantArt
Title and credit font - Maldives
Attribution font - Happy Fox

Notes: As a former art student who used to bs projects by making them about dadaism, this is certainly not dada. However I liked the way the mix of colors turned out, especially in regards to working with the title. This was made literally by just throwing layer after layer after layer of the same texture pack on top of each other. Some stuff is flipped around, others have different opacities or effects. And given how quickly it all came together it might be something I have to try more often!

Description: Black and white image the back of a man and woman's wrist and hands. On the man's wrist is a tattoo mark of a baseball pitcher in a wind up. On the woman's wrist is the outline of a baseball catcher's mask.

Square: Filters and Masks
Link: one look and my heartbeat stops
Fandom: Pitch
Credits:
Couples arms with matching tattoos picture
Catcher's mask silhouette
Pitcher silhouette
Yellow font - Unika Slant
Blue font - Violetta Sans

Notes: Given how often I read the trope, I've always wanted to try my hand at making cover art with matching soulmate marks. My real limitation was trying to find a couples tattoo image where the tattoos were small enough that I could layer over them without it looking weird. Also, that thing about if you say a word too many times it doesn't sound real, also applies if you look at too many pictures of wrists.

semperfiona

A fairly simple cover this time: a flock of blackbirds in flight silhouetted against a sunset, with black text. The credits are in a sans serif font at the top, and the title is in a brush script font ("Sign Painter", probably from either dafont or 1001freefonts) angled up from the lower left.

The podfic is from this week's Voiceteam challenge, for First podfic in a new fandom (it's actually the third, since I recorded six podfics all in the same tiny fandom for this week).

The Fionavar Tapestry, Jaelle's own story. Paul/Jaelle endgame, rated G.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24257770

babelghoti

Description: a black and white photograph of a forest clearing with light falling through the leaves.

Squares: Chiaroscuro, Monochrome

Podfic: [podfic] not to me. not if it's you.

Credits:
Original pic: https://unsplash.com/photos/s2gBtAtX9XE
Fonts: Kawoszeh (https://www.befunky.com/)

ginandchthonic

A square podfic cover with a black and white image of the silhouette of a woman in a dark place surrounded by smoke. Title and credits are overlaid in off-white and red in the foreground.

Description: A square podfic cover with a black and white image of the backlit silhouette of a woman in a dark place surrounded by smoke. Title and credits are overlaid in off-white and red in the foreground.

Square: Lonely

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ginandchthonic

A square podfic cover with an overall green pattern, and an Art Nouveau design overlaid in gold, with the title MYTH(anth)OLOGY, Team Chartreuse, A Multifandom Collection, Voiceteam 2020, and a credits listing for six stories

Description: A square podfic cover with an overall green pattern, and an Art Nouveau design overlaid in gold, with the title MYTH(anth)OLOGY, Team Chartreuse, A Multifandom Collection, Voiceteam 2020, and a credits listing for six stories.

Squares: Art Nouveau, Cover first

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ginandchthonic

Square podfic cover with an illustration of two men in silhouette walking side by side; one holds an umbrella. They are surrounded by rain and scrawled text, against a multicoloured background. The word PHANTASMAGORIA is overlaid on them in white type, and the credits are scribbled near the bottom left.

Description: A square podfic cover with a luminous multicoloured background. Against it is an illustration of two men in black silhouette walking in the rain, one holding an umbrella. They are surrounded by text and raindrops. The title is overlaid across them in white, and the credits are scrawled on the background near bottom left.

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ginandchthonic

Square podfic cover showing a 1923 photograph of two nude women entwined, revealed by the words THE CHAOS cut through holographic foil. Other credits scratched on top. A ripped Parental Advisory sticker in upper left.

Description: A square podfic cover with a 1920s photo of two nude women entwined, revealed by the words THE CHAOS cut through holographic foil. Other text and credits are overlaid in distressed type. A ripped Parental Advisory sticker is on the upper left.

Squares: Vintage, Chiaroscuro

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annapods

Pimp one of your covers!
Or someone else’s. Ideally both. (Yes this is totally an excuse for a love fest.)

babelghoti

Description: an acrylic painting of a ship tossed by the waves, executed in pastel blue, green and pink. Features the title "Days and Nights and Crimson Noons" and the words "written by reserve" and "read by BabelGhoti" in a dark red elegant handwritten font.

Squares: Done In 15 Minutes

Podfic: [podfic] Days and Nights and Crimson Noons

Credits:
Original art by Michael Smith
Fonts: Parisienne (https://www.befunky.com/)

Notes: this is a podfic of a The Terror fic, a TV show about the doomed Arctic Franklin expedition. The painter of the artwork I used produced a whole series of gorgeous works inspired by the same event. And I made the cover in only a few minutes because I was rushing to post before the end of a fest (made it with a whole minute to spare!)

semperfiona

It's another Good Omens Az/Crowley, what can I say.

The main image (pattern) is a piece of 18th century lace from the collection of the Smithsonian museum. The new techniques are 1) I created a brush in GIMP from an image of a piece of gold braid, and 2) used that to stroke the path of the letters in the word Lace.

Fonts are Savoye and Sans Italic.

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ofjustimagine - [Grid] Best Served Warm + [Minimalism] The Christian Foundations
eafay70 - Hand drawn, Monochrome
ofjustimagine - (Cold Cover) How to Get Into the Krixin Resort + (Hair) Impressionism
babelghoti - Square: Unsplash pic
babelghoti - Squares: Arts & Crafts, New Genre, No Text, Someone Else's Podfic
greedy_dancer - A bunch of covers!
eafay70 - Free Space
annapods - Multimedia + different versions + bloomsandfoliage.tumblr.com
annapods - Cover artist bingo 2020 June challenge: Cover/words/collab welcome
ginandchthonic - Square: Inside This Moment palette
ofjustimagine - (Dadaism) From the Winter, Spring + (Filters & Masks) one look
semperfiona - Squares: Bird, Movement
babelghoti - Squares: Chiaroscuro, Monochrome
ginandchthonic - Square: Lonely
ginandchthonic - Squares: Art nouveau, Cover first
ginandchthonic - pimp a cover
ginandchthonic - Squares: Vintage, Chiaroscuro
annapods - Cover artist bingo 2020 May challenge: Pimp a cover
babelghoti - Squares: Done In 15 Minutes
semperfiona - Squares: patterns, new technique, and another bingo!

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PODDERS UNDERCOVER

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[Grid] Best Served Warm + [Minimalism] The Christian Foundations

Hand drawn, Monochrome

(Cold Cover) How to Get Into the Krixin Resort + (Hair) Impressionism

Square: Unsplash pic

Squares: Arts & Crafts, New Genre, No Text, Someone Else's Podfic

A bunch of covers!

Free Space

Multimedia + different versions + bloomsandfoliage.tumblr.com

Cover artist bingo 2020 June challenge: Cover/words/collab welcome

Square: Inside This Moment palette

(Dadaism) From the Winter, Spring + (Filters & Masks) one look

Squares: Bird, Movement

Squares: Chiaroscuro, Monochrome

Square: Lonely

Squares: Art nouveau, Cover first

pimp a cover

Squares: Vintage, Chiaroscuro

Cover artist bingo 2020 May challenge: Pimp a cover

Squares: Done In 15 Minutes

Squares: patterns, new technique, and another bingo!

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