On the first day of christmas Tesco gave to me....
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my lovely viewers for the content. The hallmark christmas movie version of christmas book cover
design because sometimes you just want cutesy romance novels goddammit! How to design a romance
holiday novel in 2021 okay so if we have got two styles the first one is category one cute
crayon-esque illustration type very similar to the romance novel trend. Here's one i made earlier.
Bright illustrations against a plain backdrop. Most of the objects are in the center and then
we have this style. Now, I did check and they are all from varying publishers. Interestingly,
I feel like this reminds me of the tween books that I used to read even though it is an adult
romance it could just be because you know .. the illustration style is the illustration style but
my parents didn't name me Divya for no reason the D in Divya stands for deeping it way too
much. We could link this childish feelings to those of the holidays because you know
it's the time of santa claus, flying reindeers, cookies, elves, elf, cancelled movies. And it's
one of those rare times where most people get to take some sort of break like you get
to have fun you go back to your family home. The trends. Couple in the snow.. ah romance.
Snow and houses. Why houses? Because christmas, like i said, it's about going home it's about
traveling somewhere and nothing says romance like getting steamy in your family's fourth home
cottage bathroom whilst your grandpa's telling war stories. They all have decorative borders,
snowflakes, holly, decorative lights, just anything christmassy. The background's always
some sort of gradient, purples, blues, pink. All right so i was like let's make this but before
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tried doing this in procreate because i was like um how long can this take really?
The answer is very [ __ ] long initially I wanted to pay homage to Edward and Bella mostly because
they look like they're permanently in winter also for their contribution to society and humanity
but this took me a long time and your girl got stressed! I just designed this entire thing using
freepik. Come design a book cover with me except my computer is dying in the process and
I try and use Pre-made assets
to speed up the time because I have a deadline On Friday so I try and do it in one hour except
it ends up taking FIVE! Let's go house hunting i don't have generational wealth so the likelihood
of me ever living in a property that is owned by some member of my family is minimally small
at this rate unless you like and subscribe and support my channel !!! Snow house trees
land and then I made the biggest mistake of my life which was opening up illustrator. I don't
know why I was like you know what? It can't be that bad it's probably just like photoshop
no. But I didn't watch any tutorials and this really reduced my lifespan guys I'm now 46.
Essentially what happened here is just like me trying to walk up the stairs or jog for more
than 30 seconds my computer was struggling! Every mouse click i made i had to pause and i had to
take a breath and i was like wow this computer is really trying to embody and personify... me. Using
the assets I just changed the colors a bit this doesn't look like a lot you're probably looking
at this thinking "I could do that in 20 minutes" and you probably can but I'm Divya. I wish that
i had recorded my audio so you can really hear the frustration but i have a remake for you.
If you're a designer and you're designing book covers in Illustrator I
salute you. There came a point in this process where i was like [ __ ] it i'm just gonna move
to photoshop. Draping the lights to bring some light to this seasonal depression.
Some of these christmas book names have just like such creative names and they're so
random. Finding love at the christmas market. Snowflakes at the mistletoe
cottage. Shristmas at the falling down guest house. Christmas wish and a cranberry kiss
at the cozy kettle. Christmas carols and a cornish cream tea. Really busting out the illiteration.
I wish it could be christmas every day. Candy canes and chlamydia at the christmas tree house.
You better watch out! Only christmas joy spreading this year. Okay so here are some great
ones submitted by my friends santa and the city, single bells, death on the christmas tree farm,
death by candy cane, under the missile toe for the army enthusiasts, a christmas carol,
deck the halls with bows of holly willoughby. So yeah i challenge you guys to give me your best
christmas pun book title. I want to see some creativity! Please just make me laugh I'm so
stressed I have a deadline in two days. And here it is like timothy chalamet they're irresponsibly
ho ho hoeing without protection down the Christmas tree farm. Greater threat than deforestation and
global warming. If you enjoyed any part of that at all I would just also appreciate a little ting!
A little subscribe and you can follow me on my social media i hope everybody has a wonderful
winter holiday slash christmas because i know times are super tough depressing
really the state of the world. I hope you guys all taking care of yourself as much as you can
and I'll see you guys in the future! Come here for that christmas hug and let's go okay
true story here one time i went to France yeah and i said "je voudrais un croissant"
and the waiter just stared at me and went .... and he looked at me and i looked at him and he looked
at me and i looked at him. I repeated myself and then he just kept on staring and he was like
what are you talking about? I was like um uh could i have a croissant please and then he
gave me one ?!!?And i tried to make like a snow would you call it the thing you walk on- GROUND?!