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

[avsno26rocks.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, MNFF has re-sorted about half the members this year. It's far more entertaining than last year's.


Oh, and that cover art looks very nice. I look forward to the finished product.

[swissmarg]

Obviously a talented artist, but Alexandra looks at least 30. Maybe the wide hips have something to do with it, but I think the face looks too old as well. I really like the swoosh of faces up in the corner, especially the slightly different angles of the profiles.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

So... I take it you won't be looking at the post in which I declare my conversion to pacifism?

[anyareine.livejournal.com]

Who is the artist that drew that?

[(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

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[(Anonymous)]

I'd have to say that this concept it pretty good. I like it.

--wodcdre

[ascot-gavotte.livejournal.com]

Alexandra looks pregnant here :/ maybe it's because her back looks swayed.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I always hide inside my house on April first. I really don't enjoy getting pranked--still holdover from being made fun of as a kid, I guess.

Rhemus

[(Anonymous)]

The picture is fine. She is prepared and competent. It is a mood-setter. I would of course prefer a picture of Alex in a black leather long-coat cursing whole Universes into oblivion, but she ain't mighty enough for that yet.