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Post by Featherwish on Mar 15, 2024 8:43:23 GMT -5
Sooo, y'all know how the Erins just revealed the title, cover, and blurb for A Starless Clan Book 6? Well, here's the cover and title. Is anyone else disappointed with the starry Mistystar and Reedwhisker? Me too. I don't think they look starry at all! Why can't they just hire fans to draw the covers? Anyway, that's my spiel. Enjoy your day!
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Post by 𝓣𝓲𝓷𝓾𝓿𝓲𝓮𝓵 on Mar 15, 2024 8:47:05 GMT -5
Yeah, we've actually already known about the cover since last month. Either way, I honestly still really like it for the most part.
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Post by Featherwish on Mar 15, 2024 8:54:51 GMT -5
Lol, that's true. However, I only just saw this and wanted to rant a little bit. And honestly? I wouldn't have known those were stars if I hadn't read the description of the cover 😅 Owen really needs to work on drawing stars and StarClan cats. Also, in my opinion, the whole thing looks far too much like a painting. Why can't we just have our beautiful realistic cat cover that we know he can produce?
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Post by کیوان on Mar 15, 2024 10:06:21 GMT -5
Lol, that's true. However, I only just saw this and wanted to rant a little bit. And honestly? I wouldn't have known those were stars if I hadn't read the description of the cover 😅 Owen really needs to work on drawing stars and StarClan cats. Also, in my opinion, the whole thing looks far too much like a painting. Why can't we just have our beautiful realistic cat cover that we know he can produce? Harper-Collin’s has historically rushed artists. His cat on that one Killer Species book was pretty baller, at least.
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Post by BҽɾɾყႦʅσσɱ on Mar 15, 2024 10:37:12 GMT -5
The title and the cover both already got revealed more than a month ago (both on the official website and here on the forums as well). As for the way this cover looks, there was a debate going on back then, both on here and Instagram, about wether or not Owen was working with AI. But I honestly think he is just overworked, rushed or doesn't get much time to work on these in general. But in regards to how a tad off the stars and paws look, he's been shown to not draw much artwork of the cats with paws (usually headshots or has the paws hidden in some way although there are, of course, a few where he did draw paws) so I honestly think he just doesn't like drawing those or simply isn't as good at it, which are both fine/fair reasons, in my opinion. Regarding the stars on Mistystar and Reedwhisker, he hasn't drawn many StarClan cats yet (if any) so it might just be yet another matter of lack of experience/practise. Though granted, he has drawn plenty of cover art, or at least a few pieces, featuring a night sky/stars, so there's that. I honestly feel like they simply just look way too dark on the cats themselves. If they were drawn brighter/sort of like twinkling stars instead of this rather frosted/snowy look with smaller and bigger shapes, it would work much better.
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