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Making a Posterised Book Cover with AI
Images are posterised when the graphic designer creates large, flat areas of colour or tone. This style is reminiscent of 20th century pop art popularized by Andy Warhol, influenced by the arrival of photography. Photography technologies changed the course of painting forever. And here are some Warhol style capsicums I painted recently, with the photo […]
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Integrating Text and Images in Book Cover Design
This is one of those low effort, big reward tricks which is so very common on professionally designed book covers but relatively rare on less attractive self-published books: The graphic designer integrates the text into the graphic in some way, often to create the illusion of depth.
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Fluorescent, Neon, Glowing Colours On Book Covers
These contemporary book covers all utilise fluorescent, neon or glowing colours to eye-catching effect.
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Collage and Mixed Media on Book Cover Design
Let’s take a look at collage and mixed media effects in contemporary book cover graphic design. The book cover in the header is not a real book. Created for learning purposes only. The central graphic is from The Australian Journal, 1 November 1950 edition.
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Literary Book Covers: Fauvism Blobs and Flat Design
I used an AI art generator to knock up some quick book covers, but I didn’t make books. I made boring supermarket items.
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Review: Kutsuwa T’GAAL Pencil Sharpener
The Kutsuwa T’GAAL pencil sharpener sold to Japanese school children comes highly recommended by pencil enthusiasts. Let’s find out why.
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Single Colour Book Covers
This collection of book covers features black, white and a single colour. Further down, let’s take a look at the wide range of covers utilising only black and white.
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High Key Colour Palettes in Book Cover Design
When talking about ‘colour’ artists are talking about several things rolled into one.
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Coloured Pencils: Prismacolor or White Label?
Today I’ll compare two brands of coloured pencil which come in large sets. I can’t compare any other large coloured-pencil sets because I have only tried Prismacolor and Brutfuner.
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The Difference Between Art Nouveau and Art Deco
Although ‘nouveau’ means ‘new’, Art Deco came afterwards. Art Deco and Art Nouveau are two major art movements of the 20th century.
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Highly Stylised Trees With Stable Diffusion
In art and illustration, artists can often be identified by their trees. Trees can be as individual as people. You know a Dr Seuss tree when you see it, right?
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Make a Parody 1980s Babysitters Club Book Cover With Stable Diffusion
What to do with all those images you’ve been creating with Stable Diffusion? Are you a child of the 80s and 90s? Let’s make some spoof paperback book covers! In this post I recreate paperback templates from my own childhood favourites and upload them here for you to use at your own leisure. I’m using […]
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Futuristic Houses With Stable Diffusion
The following futuristic houses were made using Stable Diffusion running on a locally hosted version of Automatic1111 and the dreamlike-diffusion model.
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Make a Parody 1980s Goosebumps Book Cover With Stable Diffusion
People have been using Goosebump covers as spoofy templates for years. They look great wrapped around a hokey family photo. These are also great fun wrapped around an AI generated image because Stable Diffusion is very good at creating wacky, sci-fi worlds where something is just a little off.
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Make a Parody 1980s Sweet Valley High Book Cover With Stable Diffusion
Let’s make some spoof paperback book covers! Today, Sweet Valley High and the middle grade spin-off, Sweet Valley Twins.