On All My Motions

Cover art for my newest story, “So Sad the Song”:

It’s 3½ years now since I reached the point where I had cover art for every one of my stories. By early 2020, I had experimented enough with basic graphic programs that I could begin doing my own artwork; before then, however, I got it by begging. At my request, I was provided story banners by gillo (1 fic), angelus2hot (1 fic), red_satin_doll (1 fic), comlodge (3 fics), and blondebitz (4 fics).

Starting in 2015, however, I began getting artwork from my daughter sroni.

With my previous contributors, I was satisfied with what they gave me, and wouldn’t have dared to request corrections or revisions. (The only exception — and as minor as I could make it — was when red_satin_doll graciously replaced a capital letter with lower-case one so that By Aadler became by Aadler on “All Ye Who Enter”.) The stuff from sroni, though … I was able to give her some idea regarding what I would like for a particular story, so that what she produced was sorta-semi of my own design even if I didn’t do the actual work, and then there would be various small adjustments till I was satisfied.

There was a lot of back-and-forth on the art for “… Than Meets the Eye”: different elements adjusted, shifted, and tweaked until the final result was what I was looking for. What I was looking for, however, I had known the basics of that from the beginning. That was just how it needed to BE.

It wasn’t until a number of years later that a random thought crossed my mind, and I realized that I might have got just a slight bit of inspiration from another source:

I’m not chagrined; I actually laugh about it, that something like that could sneak in on me when I was positive it was all my own idea.

You just never know.

Cover art for my newest story, “the Price of Lace”:

Cover art now for “In the Misty Moonlight”, my submission to this year’s Summer of Giles.

Been away for a while. I’ll be looking to catch up on some of those events shortly. Just for now, though, I have cover art now for “Down the Ringing Grooves of Change”.

I’ve been on this project for so long — seven years by now — that I genuinely didn’t notice when it reached its conclusion. With the previous post for “Long Time Passing”, however, I now have cover art posted for every single one of my fanfiction stories.

If you’re in the mood for some frivolous diversion, this link will give you a consolidated look at all the goodies I’ve been gifted (or, for the last few, created for myself) over the years.

Feels so weird to finally be done …

As with the previous two rounds, cover art is being provided for the stories of this year’s cof_remix participants.

 
Congratulations again to this year’s participants.

More cover art and endnotes, this time for “Reversible Error”.

Now that the posting of “By the Rose-Wreath’d Gate” has broken my long absence from LJ, I’m ready to keep going.

As seen in some of the ‘prize’ banners done for participants at Circle of Friends (cof_remix, said banners seen here and here), I’ve learned a bit about putting together story banners myself, so I’m no longer totally dependent on sroni for that. With this in mind, here’s the one for the abovementioned fic:

Additionally, I’ve done another for an older story for which I just posted new endnotes:

View. Rejoice.

Even though the story was posted less than two weeks ago, sroni has supplied cover art for “Beneath the Bitter Snows”. As usual, much appreciated.