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These are designs made primarily for myself
The Sentinel (Book Cover)
Nov 29th
This is the cover for my 2010 National Novel Writing Month novel. Nanowrimo is a challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days (aka a ‘novel’) and we are encouraged to create covers and banners for our works in progress.
The Sentinel is a slightly dystopia urban fantasy story. I think I was too strong on the realism and I used too much Buffyspeak to make it as dreary as it probably should be.
Anyway, the story is about a teenager who becomes a vigilante to protect people who choose to use magic after it reappears in the real world. It tends to jump back and forth between him being a normal teen and being the scary guy pictured above.
Created from a stock image in Photoshop with filters and color variations. I made this to fit the limit of the space alloted on Nanowrimo.org, so I might try to redo this at a realistic dpi.
Thoughts from Xander Logo II
Apr 10th
Yeah, it’s been awhile and I’m just sticking in more of the same crap. I redesigned my blogspot with the new personalized templates and had to redo the logo. I dropped the caption, made it larger and darker. Plus white transparent space on top because it’s the only thing at the top of the blog now and was a bit too high on the page. Now it’s almost too low.
Portfolio Site
Feb 1st
This is my portfolio website located at portfolio.aocdesign.com.
I got the concept and some basic layout information off of a online tutorial, but quickly started changing things. The color scheme stayed the same but I resized it because the tutorial was from an age of smaller computers. I personalized the graphics and added some of my own things. I don’t remember what originally gave me the idea for the outline of the buildings, maybe a photo of the California wildfires.
If you’re curious the city is Chicago. They have a very nice skyline.
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