Cover for Book Two by glenngabriel
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Yesterday I posted the work I did which I turned into the cover for my Novel “Amanda Ackers and The Deep Forest Elves.” Today’s image is the one I used for book two, “Amanda Ackers and The Realm Of The Witches.”
This image is used as the cover art of the book, as well as a very important puzzle piece within the book itself.
The outside ring was made by using a circle, then extruded towards the center to get the width I wanted, then extruded upward to get the thickness. I used a black marble texture I found online (surfed for “textures” and found hundreds of free textures) to finish off the ring.
The inside portion was made the same way as the outside ring, but I extruded from the outside, in to the center, then, for the material, I used a green marble texture I had also found online. I increased the bumpiness until I got the look I wanted, the marble was just to smooth.
The hard part for me, not knowing what the heck I was doing, was getting the cross sections of the Pentagram. I used a cube to begin with, pretty much flattened it, then extruded it to the length I wanted. As you can see if you look closely, the Pentagram is made from two separate lengths. I just duplicated those lengths and lied them into position, with their ends extending into the ring since I did not know how else to make the ends come out nicely. Don’t’ remember the texture I used, but just fiddled with the coloring until I got a goldish color.
The rusty/orangish disk was made the same way, using a ring and extruding into the center. I used the image of a rusty door as the texture for this one.
The Skull I had in my files (Daz Studio also has some great skeletons which can be posed as you like and then in Photoshop, remove the skull). I added the skull onto the disk in Photoshop, then added a drop shadow and manipulated the Bevel and Emboss to add some roundness to the flat looking skull.
The writing was done in Photoshop, since I could not figure out how to do it in Blender :) Some of you had asked what language the writing was on the door of the cover of book one. It is Dwarvish. The writing seen here is Theban, which is a real alphabet used by real witches in the old days, so no one could read their potions, spells books (Book of Shadows), or discover their secret meeting places and such.
Simple image, but I appreciate your asking about it. Tomorrow, I’ll post the huge Floor Pentagram which has the movable petals, showing the stairway beneath!
Thanks for viewing.
Comments (5)
bebopdlx
Nice work here.
TheOwl68
The details on this medallion look awesome, especially your work plaiting the pentagram (not easy to do), very nice choice of metal surfaces also~ This will make a stunning book cover! Outstanding work indeed!
masonspappy
Excellent modeling and texturing!! Only thing I wondered about was the skull. the low, back-sloping cranium is more likely "homo erectus" (which were forerunners to the neanderthals), instead of true human. Is that intentional?
glenngabriel
Masonspappy... yes, the skull is intentional :) The time frame for when this was created in my novel, was before humans, and, on another realm. Thanks for asking.
auntietk
Nicely done!!