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We're now in September, and that means this year's cover artist bingo is over. Congrats to everyone! It was amazing to see all the works of art you created, and it definitely inspired me for future covers.
This bingo will hopefully be back next year, though the timeframe and details aren't set yet. On that note, we'd be grateful for any feedback or suggestions you might have. You can either leave them at this post or reach out to one of the mods (Growlery and I) on whichever platform of your choice. A few areas that need second opinions: the challenges, the prompts list, the schedule.
This dreamwidth community is year-round, so feel free to keep posting your covers and resources here! That includes covers you did or were planning to do for this bingo before you ran out of time. You could even, if you wanted to, organize another challenge or two...

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Description: two curtains of multicolored string lights separated by a vertical stripe of darkness, with "This Time I'm Coming Down" scrawled in white in a handwritten font in the middle of the picture, and "written by telm_393" and "read by BabelGhoti" in the bottom left and right corners.

Squares: Joyful, Symmetry, Pattern.

Podfic: [podfic] This Time I'm Coming Down

Original pic: Jonas Denil on Unsplash
Fonts: Rock Salt, Permanent Marker (BeFunky)

Notes:
A joyful pic for a not-so-joyful fic. This is what I imagine the inside of Jason Mendoza's brain looks like. The lights also remind me slightly of multicolored pills, which works great with the theme.

And that's a blackout right under the wire!
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Description: an abstract painting made with acrylic paints in red, white, yellow and blue tones, with the title and "written by ktula" and "read by BabelGhoti" printed in white letters on black bands above and below the picture.

Squares: Triadic colors.

Podfic: [podfic] world enough and time

Original pic: Migration by Michael Smith
Fonts: Arizonia, Cormorant Unicase (BeFunky)

Notes:
This series of paintings was inspired by the Franklin Expedition, which is exactly what the TV show The Terror is about. This particular fic is centered around the act of stabbing, so the striking splashes of red in the painting were perfect.

Texture

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Seared with Scars cover

Description: Photo of a crowd turned black and white with text and shapes over the top.
Podfic: Seared with Scars by [archiveofourown.org profile] KeeperofSeeds
Prompts: texture
Notes: Screenshot of the movie with a Photoshop watercolor texture filter.

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Description: A small white cottage on the cliff of an island, overlaid with a fine diagonal stripe with the title cut out.

Square: Lonely
Link: [Podfic] to render it transparent
Fandom: The Witcher

I manipped the background image SO MUCH for this - the story is set on a small isolated island in a pseudo medieval fantasy land, so I removed the land on the horizon and added the white cottage. The story is this beautiful, emotional thing with a slightly bittersweet tinge, so I tweaked the colours and overlaid the stripes with the title cut out. I like this one!




Description: Three iridescent feathers on an dark blue oil paint background.

Square: Reuse/recycle, No Podfic
Link: N/A
Fandom: The Witcher

This is for the 3rd installment in a series I'm doing, so I reused the template - same fonts, background, effects.




Description: a statue of Pope Urbain II in funky pop colours, with green and purple text.

Square: Reverse, Perspective, (No Podfic :p)
Link: N/A
Fandom: The Old Guard

This is one I'm planning on doing asap, in which one of the characters benefits from a Papal Indulgence from Urbain II. It's a sort of funny story but also not fully funny, so I tried to strike a balance. I literally used the "reverse" effects on the statue's colour to get the greens and purple, and obviously used the text for the "perspective" aspect; I wanted it to look almost like the Pope is saying the title/broadcasting it to the world.




Description: A mess of different colours, textures and fonts around a picture of a boy with a shaved head.

Square: Dadaism (No Podfic)
Link: N/A
Fandom: The Raven Cycle

I interpreted "dadaism" by using bright colours and "collage" techniques, and making the cover way busier than I normally like to do.




Description: A stylized high-heel sandal and a hockey skate in pink and green medallions, on a textured blue background.

Square: Shoe
Link: [podfic] Find Out What It Means to Me by annapods
Fandom: Hockey RPF

Anna was nice enough to volunteer this podfic and an idea for a shoe-themed cover. This is a story about a genderswapped hockey player experiencing sexist microagressions & generally life as a woman, so I contrasted a "girly" shoe with a hockey skate. I picked a really chunky sandal so it would hold its own against the skate.




Description: A pixelated picture of a kiss in close-up against a deep red background.

Square: Censored (No Podfic)
Link: N/A
Fandom: The Old Guard

Did you know that if you Google "tongue licking neck," "hand grabbing flesh," or "close-up of kissing," you find ACTUAL PORN??? Like, hanging out right there in the Google results?? Cause I definitely forgot about that part of the internet o.O Anyway, this one seems pretty self-explanatory, I pixellated the picture to give it that X-rated flavour and voilà!


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Description: Older woman looks wistfully off into the distance, younger woman looks at her.
Square: Triadic Colors
Link: The god of my idolatry
Credit: Font: Vendetta

Notes: This was the rough triad I was working with; the orange/yellow comes from Andy's skin, the green from Nile's jacket, with a whole bunch of purple overlay on top.


Description: Man in a cowboy hat stands in front of a Airstream trailer in a junkyard.
Square: Asymmetry (replacing nsfw)
Link: Not posted yet! I don't know when our Pod_Together is posting though, and wanted to make sure I got this cover in here before the deadline.
Credit: Screencap: thetvshows.us (I ran through so many episodes trying to find good shots of Michael's trailer that ihni which one this specifically is from, sorry!) 
Font: Neo Retro Fill

Notes: Did I have to rewatch both seasons of Roswell, NM to figure out when Michael's trailer makes the best appearance? Nope. Was I going to anyways? For sure.


Description: The outside of a motel room with an external a/c unit, window, and bright blue door.
Square: Series of Covers
Link: Full folder of covers. Podfics are unpublished. (Still so much editing to do!) 
Credit: Photo: by Mario Schmidt via Stockio
Title and Credit font: Lemon Tuesday
Part #/Written By/Read By font: Moon Flower Bold

Notes: This fic series has 15 parts and I'm in the middle of editing them all for posting. It's an always-a-cisgirl!Sam Wincest series, that spans from their fucked up upbringing to their fucked up adulthood. Since most of that time for them is spent in various motels around the country, I decided to lean into that for each cover, but still keep is consistent by using the same base image and the same fonts. I love the bright blue door though! It makes the whole thing pop imo.

And that's bingo! I'm not going to make it to my goal of a blackout, but it feels good to get these up in time anyways.

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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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Since July's challenge was late, here’s something a little different for the last week of this bingo:
Tell us how it went! Did you achieve your goals? What did you learn? What was fun, what wasn’t? How’s your card looking? And most importantly, what would you suggest for next year’s round?

For the feedback part, you can also pm/email/discuss on twitter or discord/whatever else, whatever is more comfortable for you.
If you have no idea what to say, here are a few points that might need changing before next year:
- schedule (timing, length)
- challenges (why they flopped, whether to keep or to do away with, if the first what to change)
- prompts (any specific fun or unfun ones, balance between the categories, new ideas)

Once you’ve done that, you’ll have earned a special cheat that you can use to fill one (any) of your squares.

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Description: a close-up of a hand pouring tea into a line of white ceramic cups on black saucers, with the title and "written by Rymenhild" and "read by BabelGhoti" in slim white letters superimposed over the picture.

Squares: Details.

Podfic: [podfic] The Person With Weapons

Original pic: https://unsplash.com/photos/gy_DN08336U
Fonts: Josefin, Print Clearly (Pixlr X)

Notes:
Tea is... very important in the Imperial Radch series. I wanted to capture the ceremonial and almost meditative aspect of the pouring.
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This image contains swearing and sexual innuendo. If you would still like to view it, click here.

Description: A mock up of one of the tweets from the fic.
Podfic: Avengers Read Mean Tweets
Prompts: "Social Media"
Notes: I created this using the mock tweet generator found here.

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Thank You for the Fandom cover

Description: Gif with a sparkly background and sparkly text.
Podfic: Thank You for the Fandom (Fic & podfic not yet posted)
Prompts: "Sparkles/glitter/shimmer" & "Movement"
Credits: Sun Kissed Light Ray with Particles by MissAfterEffects

My Card Finally a bingo!

Movement
Wild card (grid)
Stickers Self-portrait
Texture
Art nouveau
Minimalist
Different versions
Deliberate fail Monochrome
Dadaism Meta FREE SPACE
Shoe Words only
Symmetry Photography Sparkles/glitter/shimmer
From scratch Template
Abstract
Social media Done in 15 minutes
Collaborate w/ 1 or more podder
New software (to you)

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Description: the title "In the Beginning, There Was Probably a Dick" handwritten in black pen on a white background, with the words "written by Lumeleo" and "Read by BabelGhoti" in white on a black background above and below it.

Squares: Hand drawn, Words only.

Podfic: [podfic] In the Beginning, There Was Probably a Dick

Notes:
So, I can't draw (clearly), but I found the idea of a hand drawn cover quite appealing. And since this fic is a creation myth, handwriting the title seemed appropriate.

And that's another bingo for me!
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Description: A blue-green screenshot of the living room from the Billie Eilish video "bad guy" centered in the middle of a white background. A cartoon goose has taken Eilish's place and honks in the foreground. The title of the podfic and the author's name are at the bottom in a lowercase font.

Podfic: geese goose (ok, it's filk)
Fandom: Untitled Goose Game
Square: Joyful
Notes: It's basically just a screencap of from the music video for "bad guy," but with Billie Eilish removed and a horrible honking Goose in her place. I think it's joyful, or at least it made me laugh while I was putting it together.
Editing program: Pixlr mobile app and the Photo Layers app.




Description: a monochrome photograph of a dimly lit, slightly messy bed with two pillows is centered in the middle of a black background. The title of the podfic is written at the top of the photograph in a handwriting font, the author and podficcer are listed at the bottom in a sans serif font.

Podfic: Restrain Your Voice From Crying
Fandom: The Magnus Archives
Square: Done in 15 Minutes
Notes: I think finding the stock photo took the longest amount of time for this one. I had a basic idea of what I wanted when I started out and luckily it wasn't too hard to execute.
Source image: via Pixabay.
Editing program: Pixlr mobile app and the Photo Layers app.



Description: two sepia photographs are centered in the middle of a black background. The top image contains a hand of cards, shown to the camera, with the other player's cards on the table in the background. The second image contains a chess board, set up to start a new game. The title of the fic is located between the two images, the author and podficcer are listed in the bottom right of the cover, in a different font.

Podfic: games
Fandom: The Magnus Archives
Square: Monochrome
Notes: This was an unsuccessful attempt at self-portrait (I ended up having to crop most of my hand out of the image of holding playing cards 😭). But yeah, I desaturated everything and put a sepia filter on it so it's monochrome.
Editing program: Pixlr mobile app and Canva mobile app.




Description: The older version of the cover art is on the left, the final version is on the right. Both images are very similar aside from color and font choices. The cover contains a photograph of a woman reaching into a bag with sparks coming out of it, and the image takes up most of the cover. The title of the podfic is shown in the upper right of the image, the author and podficcer are shown in the bottom left. The older cover used a thin sans serif font for the title, and a lowercase computery font for the author/podficcer names. The final cover used an all- caps typewriter font throughout.

Podfic: Catalysis
Fandom: Warehouse 13
Square: Cover First, New Take on an Old Cover
Notes: lmao, ok, I started making this cover over a year ago and only got around to recording the podfic last month. I thought I'd finished the cover last year, but I ended up hating my font choice so I went with a new one. The cover itself took a couple hours to make because I wanted several specific elements in the photo: a very plain bracelet, a woman's hand, and then the hand needed to touch something that was plot-relevant. The stock photo I used here is a woman reaching into a chalk bag (for rock-climbing?). I had to desaturate the image to hide the tie dye shirt and the chalk on her hands. Then I layered on some sparks coming out of the bag, and made the whole thing purple, both of which are tied to the plot. For the final version of the cover, I added back in some color to break up the monotone of the image. I'm kinda happy with how it turned out in the end.
Editing program: Pixlr mobile app and the Photo Layers app. New version was modified in Pixlr X for desktop.




Description: This cover is a modified version of Miike Snow's album art for "iii." A highly stylized jackalope, patterned with colorful circles and blocks of color, sits in the center of a black background. The jackalope is sitting in front of a microphone wearing headphones. The title and author's name are listed at the top, in the center of the image, in an all-caps font.

Podfic: Genghis Pod (another filk)
Fandom: Podfic Fandom
Square: Free Space
Notes: I took the existing album art for Miike Snow's album "iii," removed the title and his name, and added headphones and a mic. I really like how this one came out.
Miike Snow's album art: via Wikipedia.
Editing program: Pixlr mobile app and the Photo Layers app.




Description: The background of this cover is a photograph of waves in the ocean. There is a slightly transparent dark blue box in the upper left corner with the title of the podfic in all-caps. In the upper right corner, there is an "explicit" rating sticker. The author and podficcer are listed in all-caps in the bottom right (same font as the title), on top of a white text box that looks like it was painted on to the image.

Podfic: Darling, It's Better
Fandom: The Magnus Archives
Square: Reuse/Recycle
Notes: "Reuse" in the sense that I've seen other podficcers use this specific Canva template for cover art and I thought it was cool, so I also used it, and changed very little of the Canva-suggested format.




Description: A fragment of Sappho's poetry is placed vertically on top of a pale tan background. The title of the podfic is printed in black, in all-caps, sans serif font in the upper right. The author's name follows directly below it in red, and the podficcers names are printed below that in black font.

Podfic: Crawling Beast (link to fic, the podfic has not yet been posted)
Fandom: Good Omens/Historical RPF
Square: Minimalist, From Scratch
Notes: This is a Crowley/Sappho podfic so basically what I did was search for covers of Sappho anthologies. I found this one which had really great composition and I thought would work really well. Instead of just taking the book cover and putting my own text on it, I recreated it from scratch. I found an image of one of Sappho's fragments and made it transparent, added it to a square off-white background, and then added the text to emulate the original cover.
The book cover: via Abe books.
Editing program: Pixlr mobile app and the Photo Layers app.



Description: The background of the cover is a photograph of a single metal chair with a fabric cushion, with a bed in the background. The title of the fic is printed inside a slightly transparent black text box at the bottom of the image, in a serif font. The author and podficcer's names are printed below it in a smaller, sans serif font.

Podfic: Tell Me With Your Eyes
Fandom: The Magnus Archives
Square: Chiaroscuro
Notes: The lighting is uneven, it's a mostly dark, dimly-lit scene with pops of brightness for contrast that draw the viewer's eye to the chair and the bed, where most of the fic is taking place.
Source image: via Unsplash
Editing program: Pixlr mobile app, the Photo Layers app, modified in Pixlr X for desktop.

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Description: On a light grey brackground, Joe and Nicky's picture superimposed with fire, in a round medallion; white text.

Square: FREE SPACE
Link: Fever of Light
Fandom: The Old Guard




Description: A white feather on a solid "Classic Blue" background; light coral and white text.

Square: Pantone Color of the Year
Link: Messengers
Fandom: The Old Guard
Summary: “Do you think we might be angels?”

Yusuf’s mind is not unlike a sudden abyss. “That we might be . . .”

“Angels,” Nicolò says again.


Notes: I used the colour of the year 2020 and tried to evoke the story's quiet, reflective mood with the font choice and colour. I tend to gravitate towards the same colour schemes a lot when left to my own devices (light grey background for everyone!) so this was really cool!




Description: On the left, a bas relief representation of Gilgamesh and Enki; on the right, text that attempts to replicate the 3D effect.

Square: Ancient Art
Link: In the House of Dust by Chantress
Fandom: The Epic of Gilgamesh
Summary: Men and cities are made of clay and turn to dust.

Notes: Thanks to Chantress for volunteering this voiceteam project for my cover needs! I found this depiction of (probably) Gilgamesh & Enkidu, cleaned it up so they would be the sole focus, replicated a smooth background by layering textures and effects, and then tried to figure out a way to make text resemble the "sculpted" effect. This worked really well until I realized that I totally forgot the "In" from the title, and by that stage I couldn't reverse or remember exactly what I'd done, so I had to frankenstein the word from the other letters already in the text >.> But I'm pretty pleased with the result!

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The July challenge is still up and will be for a while, so our final challenge has been relegated to the last week of August. Which wouldn't be fair if it was only worth a swap cheat, so it'll be worth a special cheat: it'll enable you to choose one (any) square of your card and call it filled!
(Technically, you could totally use the July challenge to fill squares, since its about creating meta about cover art, but that wouldn't be /any/ square, so)

Good luck with your cover arting!
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the life and times cover

Description: Photo of a Clint with the background removed and replaced with a photo of an explosion, because Clin't life is a mess.
Podfic: The Life and Times of Clint Francis Barton
Prompts: Free space
Notes: Created with Adobe Spark and this lovely background removing site.
Photo Credits: Fire and Gold by David GarryFonts: Marvel Regular, CCBifBamBoom


Teeth cover

Description: Abstract painting with text and icons.
Podfic: Teeth
Prompts: Abstract
Photo Credits: Mary by Jr Korpa
Fonts:
WTRRoycroft

Turn Back cover

Description: Framed photo, text and background made by patterning star icons over a solid colored bckground.
Podfic: Teeth
Prompts: Done in 15 minutes
Photo Credits: Forest bride in flowing dress by photo-nic.co.uk nic
Fonts:
P22Aragon & Professor


King's Sword, Kingdom's Own cover

Description: Blue background with an imitation of the King's Own badge/symbol.
Podfic: King's Sword, Kingdom's Own
Prompts: Minimalist
Notes: Podfic isn't actually up yet, but it will be soon!
Photo Credits: Saturn, are you here ? by Adelin Preda, sword and crown icons from the Noun Project
Fonts:
GothicusRoman, Tenez-Bold

NSFW Sticker

Description: Folder full of stickers and other assets for making covers.
Files: On GDrive
Prompts: Stickers
Notes: So the rules say that to fill a square, it doesn't have to be a podfic cover, just podfic cover related. So above you will find a link to a bunch of stickers I made to use for podfic covers as well as some other backgrounds and stuff. Anyone is free to use them for any non-commercial purpose they want. There are warning stickers, rating stickers, pairing stickers, and more. Some even have transparent backgrounds.

My Card (all that and thanks to the way my mind works I still don't have a bingo. *facepalm*)


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cover art

Cover for Leave me with my jaw on the floor, for the “abstract” square of the cover artist bingo 2020.
Read more... )



cover art

Cover for Wings! at the Bookstore?, for the “xkcd” square of the cover artist bingo 2020.
Read more... )



flowchart

TO PODFIC decision making flowchart for the “new genre (for you)” square of the cover artist bingo 2020.
Read more... )

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You had a lovely childhood / What was your life? cover

Description: Moodboard-esque collage Cover
Podfic: You had a lovely childhood / What was your life?
Prompt(s): Wild Card (grid)
Notes: I created this in Adobe Spark, using various photos from Unsplash and Pixelbay and using Spark's colorize filter.
Credits: You had a lovely childhood / What was your life?
Photos:

Fonts: Futura PD

the one who's always and never alone cover

Description: Art nouveau style border with text
Podfic: Be Healed
Prompt(s): Art nouveau
Notes: None
Credits: Praying Angels and Poppies (Border Design for Thomas Malory, "Le Morte d'Arthur") by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1893)

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It's nearly the end of the month (sorry!) so this challenge will stay open until the 24th of August. Remind you, this bingo closes on the 31st!
The same rules apply as previous challenges: one cheat, to change one of your bingo squares.



Behind the scene:
Document your cover arting process and share a link here! Can be in writing like Lavenderfrost’s Behind the cover series (https://archiveofourown.org/works/6156175) or Kess’s Podfic Journal (https://archiveofourown.org/works/21543361) or Yue_ix and Annapods’ notes for a collaborative cover (https://archiveofourown.org/works/16216475), in a video like Justaphage’s cover art process video (https://archive.org/details/MeltingFromMyWingsProcess) or Annapods’ (https://archiveofourown.org/works/21791944), or DrFumblesMcStupid’s tutorial (https://archiveofourown.org/works/19801219), or you could use one of those 30 questions memes on twitter, or ...
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Trust cover

Description: Photoshopped image of a padd from Star Trek
Podfic: The Lament of a Lieutenant (And Everyone Else on the Ship) by [archiveofourown.org profile] eafay70 (Podfic not yet posted)
Prompts: Collaborate w/ 1 or more podder
Notes: I Photo-shopped an image of a padd from Star Trek with an image I made with the fic title
Photo Credits: Star Field by Jeremy Perkins
Fonts: Final Frontier Old Style


I also made a video version of this cover, because it was fun: Video.

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