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Post Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:49 pm 
 

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Please note that the art is not final. These are just random sketches of interior art. I used for general sizing.

This module will feature a color cover from Keven Mayle and interior work by Nathan Nada of previous PG&S module fame (or infamy, depending on whether you liked them or not).


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Post Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:43 pm 
 

What's not to like?
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Post Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:37 pm 
 

Looks good. Like the main picture. Looks like it's gonna be a promising image. Don't quite get the little miages below, and I think vivid greein is a little harsh if the module is going to have a BW rendered image. The image needs to be the focal point, and not the background.

With a module the cantral image draws the eye first; you look at the image and then the eye takes in the surrounding page, searching text and title etc. There is a dange with non-dominant images that you first look at the page as a whole and then search out the image and text within it. You might want to stick to pastel or muted pastel backgrounds, or go for bold black and white rendering.

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Post Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:14 pm 
 

The large art piece will be four-color and I am sure will dominate the cover. The secondary pieces will be monochrome style.

The images you see will NOT be the same that actually appear. I just used them to fill th white space for now.

I am refining that cover a bit more as it will be the template for all ADV and TM adventures. I want to make them a little different from the RC line.

Thanks for the input!


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Post Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:33 pm 
 

I like the idea of pulling three interior art pieces out onto the cover. You might also consider a sneek peak of a map portion if done well (say center box) akin to the sneek peaks RJK does to promote his works (eg The Stalk)

Four colour is good.
Don't know about the choice of tilte font.


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Post Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:48 pm 
 

It looks great, Bill.  Nice job.


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Post Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:39 pm 
 

Looking good, Bill! :D


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Post Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:54 pm 
 

bbarsh wrote:The large art piece will be four-color and I am sure will dominate the cover. The secondary pieces will be monochrome style.

Rather a different approach to "the usual", Bill, and perhaps a few resistant design opinions here, but nothing wrong with forging out in your own direction & looking forward to seeing the final. :)

aside: You have Wintercon X1 (rather than XI) both on the module and your website.


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Post Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:55 pm 
 

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