AQATSA Update, No April Fools' Joke!

[inverarity]

I feel like staying off the Internet tomorrow. I know this makes me sound like a humorless grumpy-pants, but I hate April Fools' Day. Yes, it's just so cute when every web site covers their home page with monkeys, tells us they've been bought out by the Russian mafia, changes their color scheme to pink and chartreuse, announces that they've sold your personal information to a finance start-up company in Nigeria, or whatever other clever idea they come up with. Hah hah. So I have to spend all day going "WTF?" and then remembering "Oh yeah, it's April 1."

So anyway, I guarantee this post is 100% April Fools Free.


Current word count: 186,392.

Below is preliminary line art for the cover of Alexandra Quick and the Stars Above. I made a few change requests (like holding her wand in her right hand, and pointing out that Alexandra should be a little bit skinnier), but I like it and am looking forward to the full color painted version.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The picture I'm getting here is of a stylish, mature (mentally and physically) woman. Problem is, I don't see her as any of these. She doesn't really care about clothes, so I don't know why she would be dressed in anything other than jeans and, at most, a blouse. Really...and this makes me sad to say...I'd expect her to look more like...BELLA SWAN. Ugh. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

http://static.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/as-bella-swan.jpg

Aside from the seductive gaze and confusing obsession with someone who should by all rights want to eat her, I honestly think of her like this. Not someone who dresses to impress, or is 100% confident and assured, but someone still growing into themselves, and concerned with far more weightier matters than her clothing. In this drawing, she seems too much like the prototypical female protagonist in most yawn-inspiring literature these days.

~DarkSov

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

Really?? Dude, that is so not what Alexandra looks like. Leaving aside the whole Bella!Gag thing, the girl in the picture you linked is a couple years older than Alexandra, much prettier, and definitely more physically mature.

I see what you're saying, but aside from the rather fashionable jacket and belt (which I admit, is probably not really Alexandra's style), she isn't really dressing up in this picture -- she's pretty much just wearing jeans, a long-sleeved shirt, and a jacket. Which is what I told the artist to draw, since in this scene, she's meant to be outside in the cold, looking up at the sky.

(FYI: Your comment got automatically screened, I guess because of the link. I guess it's nice that LiveJournal is finally doing something about spammers, but it would be nice if they screened the posts containing embedded Russian porn spam.)

[(Anonymous)]

But...porn spam is all I go to livejournal FOR!

Yeah, I didn't mean BELLA SWAN, so much as I did the actress. I can never remember her name. She did a movie adaptation of the book Speak for Lifetime some time ago, and I thought she was very good. It's really more that image that I meant, I probably should have been a bit clearer.

~DarkSov