I Made A Book Cover For A Thriller Story I Wrote

I love a good thriller, and when I saw the author for this month for the TOIWriteIndia contest had given a prompt where we had to come up with a story of a thriller genre, I was super excited.

I was skeptical at first about my 'ability' to write thrilling stories, but my brain managed to hatch something in the end. And voila, I had written my very first crime story. (Well...sorta :P )

I also had a little celebration in my head for finishing it a day before the last day - which is tomorrow. Because that's never happened before. I'm very bad at keeping up with deadlines.

I can't reveal the story to you as per the rules of the competition, but I did manage to make a cover for the story in Photoshop. It's not a requirement but, I just thought I would do something extra. For fun. (My brain: I see what you did there. You want the author to notice you. You cheeky monkey!)

Of course, where would I be without all the tutorials to teach me how to do stuff. :D

I found an interesting tutorial on YouTube titled 'How to make a scary wall scrawled with blood.' And, since my storyline had a killer in it, I thought why not go the gory route for the cover.

Well, I'm pretty satisfied with the way it turned out (for a first book cover), and here it is for you to judge. What do you think? Would you be like -

'Hm..I wanna see what's inside.'

(or)

'Meh, this looks cheesy as F*'

Comment and let me know. :)

'You Made Me A Killer' by Anusuya Subramanian

If you've reached here, thanks for reading, mate. And I hope you have a great day ahead. 

P.S. Been watching a lot of Australia's Got Talent on YouTube. You can notice the influence it's had on me here. 'Mate' here strictly means 'friend' ya'll! :D I googled it just to be sure I was using it appropriately in my blog post, but google disappointed me with its first result. Hence this little explanation towards the end. Wasn't necessary but, ......... whatever. Here's a candy 🍬

Byeee!!!

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I Tried Creating A LOGO For My Blog (And Went Insane)
'Photoshopping' my Dogs
Looking Back: My First Ever Photoshop Drawing
Event Posters Using Photoshop
Hello there!

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I Tried Creating a LOGO For My Blog (And Went Insane)

Hello, lovelies! I almost thought I had given up on this blog. Reason: My baby dog had a surgery and I ended up bawling all day for 3 days. It was the saddest moment of my life.

He's okay now, so I decided to get back to business - which is to become a professional graphic designer... or illustrator or... whatever I end up becoming towards the end. Who knows, I might surprise myself by becoming a sand artist instead. Nah, I'm kidding. They aren't even related. :P

I'm just tryin' to enjoy the process whatever the end result might be. And, most of all, I'm just tryin' to stick to the rhythm of doing at least one project every week!

Comment below if you think it's important to pursue our full potential or as this quote goes:

"I once heard the definition of hell: On the last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become" - anonymous

That's powerful, isn't it? With this thought for you to ponder about, let me show you what's been cookin' in my adobe illustrator!

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I wanted to create a logo for this blog. So I dived right into my illustrator thinkin' -

'Ha! This won't take much time at all!' 
'Logos are easy peasy lemon squeezy!' 
'I'm fairly good at drawing, so this must be right up my alley!'

Well, I was wrong.

By the time I finished my half-baked logos, an entire day had passed. And I became aware of the fact of just how difficult creating logos can be!!!

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I started with an eye. (tutorial link)

Then, I created some candies. (candy tutorial link , spiral tutorial link)

Then, I looked for inspiration in logopond.com. I then tried to think of something to incorporate the 'blue' part of my blog's name into my logo but ended up with a blue circle and a square. (I guess you could call that a creative fart? *hehehe*)

Then I created a circular text. (tutorial link)

So far, the components of my logo consisted of  an eye, two candies, a blue circle & a square, and a circular text. These were simple shapes and I had to come up with something interesting and unique so that, when I brought them together, the end result didn't end up looking like a kid's drawing. (Later I gave up on that and...let the logo be whatever it wanted to be.)

Logos are supposed to be the heart of a brand (I learned that I think - if my memory serves me right), so I really wanted it to look fancy and good and striking!

But then...

This happened.

I almost felt betrayed by my right brain.

That's why it's important, people, to not have really high expectations when you are starting out so that you don't end up giving up when things go south!

It's always easy to have a mindset where you prepare ahead of time for the worst-case scenario. (This advice is for me. And for my future logo endeavours.)

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Disappointed with my first attempt, I started again with a blank sheet in illustrator and went through a couple more of youtube tutorials.

Aaaand...

Here they are. I couldn't even differentiate the good from the bad at this point. I had gone completely bonkers and was just clicking, dragging, moving, merging stuff, applying effects...

I finally settled on the one you see above. (blue crystal tutorial)

It was an insane ride, but I learned a lot in the 8 hours that I spent doing these 'logos.' It isn't perfect and I wish it were better, but I'm in this for the long haul...so, imma keep goin'

Have a good day ya'll! ^_^

And thanks for reading.

Byeee!!!!!!

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digging this song called 'natural disaster' after my logo flop :)

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If you missed my previous posts, click on these links for quick access!

'Photoshopping' my Dogs
Looking Back: My First Ever Photoshop Drawing
Event Posters Using Photoshop
Hello there!

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'Photoshopping' my Dogs

Olá!

I've been tinkering around inside Photoshop the entire day just to come up with something to post here. First I thought I should come up with a logo of some sort or perhaps a header to make the blog more lively, 'cause - let's be honest, this blog needs a major facelift!!!

But then...

after skimming through a couple of tutplus tutorials, my brain started smokin' cigars. So I dropped the idea.

And I decided to stick to the simpler things. Like photoshop composting. - which isn't that difficult at all. But it did take me an entire day to get it done. For anyone interested, 'this' is the tutorial I followed.

Personally, I think they turned out pretty great. But a second set of eyes definitely helps. (which is you, by the way. *wink*) Honestly, thanks for stopping by this humble blog. I'll try to give my blog more love in the coming days, but for now, this is all I got. Big things start small, right fellas? With that thought, here are the results of my photoshop composting!

(Composting is just putting objects from different images in one single photo. That's how I understood it.)

What do you think? Yay or Nay?

My doggos vacationing with an unknown hooman XD

The Original Images: my doggos(top), photo from unsplash.com(bottom)

Well...

that's about it to this post.

See you next Saturday!


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If you missed my previous posts, click on these links for quick access!

Looking Back: My First Ever Photoshop Drawing
Event Posters Using Photoshop
Hello there!

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