[WWW] A Few More Covers Added

Wil Alambre wilalambre at gmail.com
Sat Dec 18 19:45:33 PST 2010


On 2010-12-18, at 5:09 PM, Andrew Perron wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:29:51 +0000 (UTC), Wil Alambre wrote:
> 
>> I have been a little lax in adding covers to the RACC site recently, but
>> my focus on rebuilding the site has spurred me to whip up a batch. You
>> should be able to see them all in the recent issues page or, if new posts
>> arrive by the time you read this, in the cover gallery. Enjoy!
> 
> Awesome times!
> 
> I have to wonder where you found the image for the Digital JUMP! cover.
> It's... indescribable. o-o

I generate most of the covers by downloading free fonts from places like
Blambot (highly recommended), and grabbing images from places like Google
Groups and Getty Images and the such. That fellow came from a search
involving the keywords "jump" and "enthusiastic". :P

On 2010-12-18, at 5:18 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:

> On Dec 18, 1:29 pm, Wil Alambre <w... at visuallizard.com> wrote:
>> I have been a little lax in adding covers to the RACC site recently, but
>> my focus on rebuilding the site has spurred me to whip up a batch. You
>> should be able to see them all in the recent issues page or, if new posts
>> arrive by the time you read this, in the cover gallery. Enjoy!
> 
> Wow, that's good stuff.  My own stuff looks shabby by comparison.  But
> still, it's my job to do my own covers.  If you would like something
> to represent "Superhuman World" in the cover gallery,
> http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2009/2009.jpg would be a good generic
> cover.

For the Superhuman World 2010 series, I riffed off the magazine idea,
creating a cover based on Time's classic design. :)

On 2010-12-18, at 8:18 PM, James Mason wrote:

> I found the cover for my story amusing course I find lots of things
> amusing. Also do you know any artist who can draw in the cartoony
> style?

Glad you liked it. :P There are several artists on deviantart that, it you
are polite, may be able to help you?

- Wil Alambre



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