Fantasy. I made a video like this in 2018 but like Jesy Nelson's skin the trends
just kept changing... this video was sponsored by squarespace. Hi it's Divya G what does the g stand
for? The g stands for gagging and crying because recently it looks like YA fantasy has had a bbl in
the past couple of years. I feel like there's so many variations of fantasy covers now it could be
a whole series in itself and like you if you would like that - I am just so glad that we've kind of
matured and stepped away from this whole trend of like "confused girl stepped out of the club hopped
onto the set of Game of Thrones and is trying to run away from Conor Maynard". That was really
such a specific joke you have to be in a really niche pocket of the internet to understand it- Sub
trend number one is this. Passport border control, what's the number one thing you need to find out?
Background. Bark. Texture. leaves. Forest. Water. Fire. Air. long ago the four nations lived
together in harmony- sometimes the background is just like rusted gate that's going to give
you tetanus if you touch it. George Macdonald is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern
fantasy and in his literature he often connected nature and fantasy together. If you think about
it, fantasy is nothing without the edenic scenes of main characters rolling and riding down the
hill, wind blowing, grass and the breeze, they're climbing the cavernous mountains like they really
care about this pgl trip to Wales. And nature is common in a lot of fantasy because it allows
for escapism - it's a universal landscape for reference. Even individual elements such as
trees across folklore throughout history and time trees have been used as a symbol of life, of
magic, of wisdom. There's whole ass dissertations on this topic if you're more interested. In terms
of cover design, it does make sense for a lot of fantasy covers to still have this element of the
natural world in them. Another thing you'll need some 3d rendered looking high contrast
stuff. Swords - lots of swords. A lot of roses, a lot of leaves, crowns, some illuminati symbolism
going on, or barbed wires, intricate gates and a lot of decorative borders. I'm not gonna lie
i can't tell some of these apart, apart from Caraval and i don't know if that's because it
was one of the earlier ones to kind of feature this type of trend. You cannot look at Reverie
and not tell me that Caraval was not a direct influence. Except Reveries, she's suffering
from vertigo i don't know what's going on here girl. What colors are you gonna need?
Golds blacks reds blues just a lot of dark rich colors and then for the font something
serious, something 3d looking. I feel like this one's quite fun with like texture
being the same as the decorative borders. So using all these elements you know what you're here for:
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you. Okay let's go. I opened up a blank canvas and I stared at it for 15 minutes. Just burnt
out student tings! If you didn't see the previous video before this, fantasy titles yeah are always
so dramatic they're always like OBLIVION. THE WICKED SAINT. FEAST OF BLOOD AND SWORDS. Kingdom
of OF SHANKS AND MERKING. CROWN OF RATS AND ASH. DRIVE. POWER. WE STAY HUNGRY WE DEVOUR-
and i was like okay what are we gonna call this one my guy? One of the riveting conversations that
i've had in the past few weeks that reminded me what it feels like to be alive was with my
group mates. We were doing like some coursework. It's Britain yeah it's getting cold and we were
like you know what? It's so cold our nipples are like glass. They're frozen. It was like oh
watch out! Because i'll lean over the desk and your courseworks gonna get ripped!
That's perfect nipples of glass. Let's put some glass - I don't even know if that's a
metaphor it's just obvious. Like maybe my nips shattered the glass because it was so sharp
like the pressure points just psssh. Yeah I downloaded a glass brush and i just painted
some glass. I knew that the background had to be very heavily nature inspired so i was like
we need roses! We need leaves! Give me beauty and the beast except do not give me Emma Watson's
over-produced botched voice. That's not your fault, Emma. Color grading, black and white, up
the contrast, up with the highlights, darken the shadows, playing around with some of the opacity
blending modes right. And i was like how do I include a frame in this? Or is that another subset
video category that i'm going to have to make? I was like you know what? Let's do framing with some
barbed wire. It's like stay out! These are sharp! For the title i was like I gotta make them
pointy a little bit. You gotta make them point a little. I played around with the embossing
and the contour... the rest was just details darling! Some yellows, and play around a little
bit with the overlay. Make the glass overlapp the text a little bit for depth. Then it hit me:
stroke of genius. How am i out here calling this book nipples of glass and not having any actual
nipples on the cover? What? Okay so this photo of nick jonas's nips... it became an iconic moment in
the history of our humanity. I hope that this is one of the photos that NASA sends out to the alien
to really embody who we are as a people and a culture and a society and the values that we stand
for... sadly this is photoshopped but one can dream. I cut them out like i'm a plastic surgeon
and then i just stuck his nips all over the cover you know. Added a bit of motion blur to make them
look like they're like they're zooming past us yeah. They're flying they're all over the place.
Decrease the saturation a bit to make it blend a bit better we don't want to
stand out too much cover up a bit, Nick. And yeah bada bing bada bong.
You're none the wiser. This is the cover. Book one. Uh it's a story about Nick Jonas
and the magic that his nips hold um he has to travel across many mountains, he falls in love
with some celebrities on the way who are also magic... Alex from wizards of waverly
place. One day he finds himself on a beach surfing because he has to defeat the sea titan
this is turning into a Percy Jackson novel at this point. I'm planning on making this a series
there's a few other trends in wire covers um that are a bit above my skill set right now but one day
it will happen. So if you are aware of anything, any trends... let me know and just give me a title
for the next fantasy book. Like just whatever you want. I hope you guys thoroughly enjoyed
that follow me on twitter instagram whatever you want i'll see you guys for my next video hugs
i feel like the title is something that we all as our society can relate to
it is it's a problem come with me and you'll be in a world of my pinterest board this
is a trend this is a subset of a trend no it's not a subset trend it's like a subset
right it's trends that are sub does that mean what what am i saying anywhere any these are these