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Guide to Standard Book Sizes – Book Design 101

Welcome to Book Design 101 – a handy guide covering all the basics of what you need to know when publishing your first book. In this episode, we’ll look at how big – or small – your book can b

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The Anatomy of a Book (Layout) – Book Design 101

Welcome to Book Design 101 – a handy guide covering all the basics of what you need to know when publishing your first book. In this episode, we’ll look at what, exactly, should be a part of the b

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The Anatomy of a Book (Cover) – Book Design 101

Welcome to Book Design 101 – a handy guide covering all the basics of what you need to know when publishing your first book. In this episode, we’ll look at the most popular book formats and all th

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Printing effects: a guide to making your cover special

If you thought that self-publishing doesn’t offer much in terms of printing effects that can make your cover SCREAM – you were wrong. …or at least partially. If you decided to follow

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5 Tools That Make My Job Much Easier (Designer/Artist Edition)

Every artist has tools that they would preferably never be separated from – tools that make our lives SO much easier and save as tons of time that we can now productively use to watch cat memes

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Upwork, Guru, PeoplePerHour: a Subjective Review of Freelance Marketplaces

Freelance marketplaces, freelance platforms – however you call them, they are one of the easiest ways to get a gig as a new and inexperienced freelancer. They have their good and their bad sides

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"Moonlight" - a personal urban fantasy illustratio "Moonlight" - a personal urban fantasy illustration. I had a lot of fun with this one - I wanted to use spotlight-type lighting, with a large moon in the back. You can almost hear the werewolves howling 🐺 😆 

Reference for the model - from TrueRef. 

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Book cover illustration for a YA novel. The author Book cover illustration for a YA novel. The author ended up going into a different direction with the cover, but I still really like the illustration. And I'm very proud of the background and the furniture. 😉 

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"The Chosen Cycle" by Lucia Gonzalez, fantasy book "The Chosen Cycle" by Lucia Gonzalez, fantasy book cover design and illustration. 🗡️ 

I really loved working on this cover - this style of illustration is really growing on me and I'd love to work on more covers like this next year. 😍 

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