Cover Design

[Jürgen Hubert]

I've toyed around with a new cover design for Urbis. I rather like this one...



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The individual illustrations come from ClipArt.Com, with some minor modifications. I wish I could emphasize the fantastic nature of the setting more, though - but with my skills, the best I can do is give the guy elongated ears...

 

[Wolv0rine]

I've toyed around with a new cover design for Urbis. I rather like this one...



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The individual illustrations come from ClipArt.Com, with some minor modifications. I wish I could emphasize the fantastic nature of the setting more, though - but with my skills, the best I can do is give the guy elongated ears...

Hmm, the clipart does actually give it a really nice victorian steampunk-esque Jules Verne flavor I think is cool (although not being terribly familiar with Urbis I can't say how fitting it is, but I dig it). The squiggly line there is wonky-looking, although I think I get what you're trying to do with it (stretched-leather seam binding type thing?).
I wouldn't call it a finished effort, but it's not a bad beginning at all. It has character.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Yeah, it has character. However, as someone who's not seen much about your setting, it looks like Victorian tourists abroad in Italy. Might you want to add something unique to the setting to garner a little more interest? (Because I'm interested, but I don't know what's going on.)

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Hmm, the clipart does actually give it a really nice victorian steampunk-esque Jules Verne flavor I think is cool (although not being terribly familiar with Urbis I can't say how fitting it is, but I dig it). The squiggly line there is wonky-looking, although I think I get what you're trying to do with it (stretched-leather seam binding type thing?).

You are not the first one to comment on that, so I'm currently looking on ClipArt.Com for a more suitable decoration than the squiggly line. There should certainly be something better somewhere in there.

Jule Verne-flavor isn't bad - the setting is strongly inspired by 19th century Europe. I'm currently trying to figure out how to emphasize its fantasy flavor more, though - unfortunately, the amount of 19th century fantasy illustrations at ClipArt.Com is rather limited...

 

[Doug Sundseth]

You might be able to find something in an old printing of Spenser's The Faerie Queen. Anything 19th century is in the public domain unless I'm much mistaken.