Winter Prey Cover

Cover for Trana's upcoming Mystery/Thriller release, Winter Prey.  I have been waiting ages to do this cover, and I'm glad that she is getting the book out.  I helped edit several of the chapters, along with our Writer's Group, and can't wait to read the finished book. 

The most difficult thing on this one was finding the eyes to use for the creature.  After a lot of looking here in dA, I went over to Dreamstime since Trana still had some credits left.  I was originally going to have the eyes just under the title, but they didn't show up well on the mountain background.  The reflection effect on the lake is much better and gives it a good bit of creepiness. 


I've already gotten a lot of greats comments on it, so I'm very excited that it has gone over well so far.

Kindle Link: Coming Soon

T.M. Simmons:  Website & Facebook


Stock Used:
Mountain/Background - wyldraven
Lake - ascenciok
Ice/Boulders - lucieg-stock
Snow Plants - blackstock 
Eyes -  Dreamstime  Provided by T.M. Sommons
Fonts - Times New Roman (slug) & Copperplate Gothic BT Roman (title/author)

Mountain Magic Cover

Another book cover for Trana. This one is for one of her romances that she is re-releasing for Kindle. I'm not too sure what this one is about, but I'll update the info once it's up on Amazon.

Kindle Link: Coming Soon
T.M. Simmons: Website  & Facebook   

Stock Used:

Mountain - xxmynightmarexx 
Drums - Provided by Trana Mae Simmons
 Font - Chancery Cursive

Ghost Hunting Diary Vol. 3 Book Cover

Another book cover commission for Trana!  This one is for the third volume of her ghost hunt diaries.  All of these stories are true, and I'm in a few of them.  Like her other books, this one will be available to download on Kindle.

Anyway, she just needed something simple for this one.  I originally had gone out and taken pictures of the tree that is featured in one of the hunts, but I couldn't get the image to darken enough without distorting it.  The stock image used is actually fairly similar, so it worked out in the end.

Kindle Link: Coming Soon
T.M. Simmons: Website & Facebook


Stock Used:
Tree -- PhoeebStock  
Fog -- moonchild-ljilja  
Font - Optimus Princeps SemiBold

Web Design update

At this time, I will not longer be opening Web Design commissions.  Since having a baby, I do not have the amount of free time need to be able to work on one.  I may do a few easy ones if I have the time, but for the most part I will be concentrating more on image design and photography.

Book Covers for T.M. Simmons

My good friend Trana commissioned me to make some new book covers for her Dead Man series, which she is getting ready to re-release on Amazon as Kindle books.

The most difficult part of making the covers was finding stock images on deviantArt that would allow commercial use.  I tried looking through a few of the stock websites, but the prices they ask for stock is ridicules.  iStockPhoto wanted almost $200 for one.

The stories themselves are a mix of supernatural mystery and humor.  I tried to get that across with the covers.  The first one, Dead Man Talking, came out okay, but I really love how the Dead Man Haunt cover came out.  I was lucky to find the skunk image.  

Stock Used: 

Dead Man Talking

•  Skeleton - Marcopolio-Stock
•  Title Font - Bones

Dead Man Haunt

•  Skeleton - Twins72-Stocks
•  Skunk - shd-stock
•  Title Font - Bones
•  Necklace - hand drawn by me

Update

I've been extremely lax and haven't really put a lot of time into this blog since my parenting blog has taken off.  However, that's going to change.  In the next week of so, I'm going to start getting some of my photography up and maybe even some of the digital works as well.

I'm also going to be working on some book cover art for a friend of mine.  I'll post some more details on that later.

Superhero Downloads

Here are some super heros that you can use for fan art.  There are plently more if you look around his site.

http://fanartexhibit.wordpress.com/downloads/

Terrell Photo Walk

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I'm currently uploading several pictures to both the flickr group and to my devientArt account.

hmmm...

On a whim, I did that analyzer on I Write Like.  I put in my published poem 'Love No More', and this is what I got:

I write like
Vladimir Nabokov

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

I definitely wasn't expecting that.

Worldwide Photo Walk

I'll be participating in the Worldwide Photo Walk for the Terrell area on July 24th.

For more details, follow this link: http://worldwidephotowalk.com/walk/terrell-tx-united-states-downtown-moore-ave/

More Poster Tutorials

Here's some more poster tutorials:

http://www.noupe.com/tutorial/fresh-and-excellent-photoshop-tutorials-for-designing-posters-from-2010.html

50 Poster Tutorials for Photoshop

Here is a link to some poster toturials.

http://creativenerds.co.uk/tutorials/50-photoshop-tutorials-for-creating-posters-designs/

Epic Movie Poster Contest Entry

Here is the link to my completed entry for the Epic Movie Poster Contest:  http://policegirl01.deviantart.com/art/Azalea-Gambit-Movie-Poster-160926892

Contest info can be found here:  http://screeners.deviantart.com/blog/31192481/

Professional Billing Block Fonts

Here's an article about several of the most used billing block fonts.  You can follow the links to either download or purchase the fonts shown.

http://www.infictus.com/a-short-list-of-the-most-used-poster-credit-fonts/


Also, here is a link to download MovieRatingsAndFormats.  This font can be used with both movie posters and DVD covers.

http://www.fontspace.com/character/movieratingsandformats

setting up...

Since Hostecs decided to delete all free acounts without notifing anyone, I'm moving everything here.  It will take a while to get the blog setup, being that I'm busy with the baby and all.  I'll try to make some regular updates.