Here it is...

After two weeks of toiling away, I finally got a semblance of a working book cover. There are some good things going, but about a thousand things that need work. I was limited on what I could utilize for this project, as it had to be done strictly from images found on the internet. However, the teacher allowed me to scan one of my sketches and use it for my main character, Oya. Everything else is pure pixels.

Ended up being a rush job I suppose. One of my biggest gripes is that the artistic style of Meze is vastly different from everything else in the cover. The overall vibe the cover gives is a tad too childish, and there is very little that is childish about this story. Trust me. Yet I don't want to be too critical because this is just a maquette, a practice for the real thing which I hope to crank out when my book is at 100%. I felt this was a much needed challenge for me, as tomorrow marks a special day for Oya Kemdi. Her one-hundredth birthday. The significance of the day is something I hope to touch further upon in the coming months.

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