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Gotta give the people (only one person asked) what they want. Hi internet friends, its Divya G(so)enerous
but my name is not Ellen (ha ha). Welcome to my how to design a trashy book cover
series. A series where I don't even tell you how to design book covers really - we
just kind of point out tropes together, we make jokes together (that rhymed, I should be a rapper) and we don't
laugh together. I kind of just uncomfortably laugh my own jokes like
*the most forced and uncomfortable laughing you will ever have the misfortune of hearing* but most importantly, we stay together... forever and ever and ever and ever and
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Middle grade.
Bossman:So you want to design and make jokes about middle grade?
The Best Employee Of The Decade: Yes
*Contemplative pause*
Bossman: It says here under "relevant experience"
that you've "bought all of Jacqueline Wilson's books in hardback" and that
you've "read the first three books in the Percy Jackson series"
The Best Employee To Exist Ever plshireme: Yes
*Robert De Niro emerges*
Alan Sugar: You're hired
I'm really out here missing an episode of love island to record this
but before we bEgIn you know what in the beginning of the video I said that I
don't really show you how to make a cover anyway? Yeah... it appears I jinxed myself and
I played myself - I spent a grand total of six hours making this cover and it's a
bit of a mess because I have a really bad laptop and virtually NONE OF IT RECORDED. Everything
in my life really likes to imitate the TV series: Lost. It was also the cover
that was the most difficult to make but that's life. The things that did record
got stuck so I've just had to make do with the ten minutes that did record
Yeah I tried? So yeah, it will just be me doing a voiceover without most of the
Photoshop magic (literally what is the point) but y'all ain't really here to learn how to make covers anyway right?
*Nervous laughter*
Why do bad things happen to good people? But anyway, thank you for being patient
with me. Sometimes it really be your own CPU!
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today we're mainly focusing on
*Deep, sexy voice speaks over music more dramatic than inception* The action and adventure stories that 13 year old boys, with no parents,
and special prodigy-like fighting abilities go on.
I've been looking at a few of these covers and the only real difference
between adult fantasy and child fantasy is that there's a lot less depressing
real humans on children's books. But, for the overall theme of your book you want
jewel tone colors okay? Purples, blues greens, yellows....
I chose maauuuuvvveee. If you got that reference you are eligible to apply in the
comments below for a state pension. The most common covers for these are, first
of all, have children in the foreground in media res and preferably somewhere
quite exotic and dangerous. I chose a cliff because SIS, we all know this book
is about to end in a cliffhanger. In this economy we have to have to CA-PI-TA-LISE and
push out more books in the series. Have you ever seen a sea horse giving birth?
*laughs at own joke* when I say "push" this is how we aim to establish our publishing schedule. The main
character will be a boy holding some type of weapon mostly because boys are
more common protagonists in popular middle grade fantasy and adventure
novels and yes - this is Link. What is the link? (Ha ha) There is none but they are
*Hunky voice that makes all the lads swoon* The chosen one
with the help of their best friends (squad goals) who are also of the same age
they will somehow embark on a dangerous mission that the adults are
somehow incapable of dealing with
and save the entirety of humanity itself.
Children love animals. I don't know why perhaps they see their ownselves
reflected in them *cough* For this cover I chose a panda as a salute of respect to the
song that plagued my summer 2016 (these are years I will never get back) and also because pandas are my favorite
animal. All they do all day is eat, sleep and stay CUUUTTTEE <3 uwu
isn't that the life we all want?
The part that cut out is... pretty much everything
that I did but mostly just me color grading for 4 hours straight, smudging
and blurring each element to look like Leonardo da Vinci himself painted this
cover and adding enough lens flares and glow to make Rihanna's fenty body lava
jealous. But wait! Hold up, wait a minute, all good just a week ago.... you
might be thinking (no one is thinking this) "Divya what am I gonna title my generic middle grade action
fantasy adventure novel?" "Ravioli ravioli give me the formuoli for the title" it's
very easy. First of all you just need a name and the something-something and yes
I am aware that this cover is basically just a Rick Riordan ripoff but
you know what they say you've gotta take inspiration from The King. Thank you so much for
watching and commenting I'm not gonna lie to you I kind of just upload for
the comments. Your comments honestly like make my day they mean they make me lol
okay they make me lmao you know ROTFL like ha ha ha ha hee hee . Yes.
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no tea just facts.
As always, if you want to see something, apart from
my n00ds, you can always just let me know and I have other social media if you're
interested well yeah peace out- out.... okay