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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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I'm going to read that right now
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(Few minutes later)
Wow ! So many congratulations...
That will make me blush
But that is very kind...
I'm happy that you (and them) like my artworks so mauch
- How I decide a theme :
for 90% of my illustrations : I read the book. When I don't read it's an accident, the publisher don't have enough time and needs the illustration for "yesterday" when he comes to see me
So I read and, like any reader/fan, I see the better scenes and the atmosphere of the story. After, it depend of the story, when you have a big scene (epic or emotional) I try to represent it and mix it with the other elements of the story. In my gallery, "at all costs 2" and "war of honor 1" are good examples of that method. You can see a big scene mixed with honor's face, some wrecks of a ship, the crowd and media judging Honor and Amish Alexander's feelings...
- How many time :
3 years ago, I needed 2 weeks for an illustration. Now I need 3 days, sometimes 4...
I hope that I've answered to your wuestions
And I'm amazed how fast you can work on one of these!
But I think that you can't create a cover with the good atmosphere if you don't read. that's very hard and there is a part of luck...