Jurij Korybut, space cadet

 remember I was messing around with the idea of a graphic novel?  well, I've been playing with cartoon style on Night Cafe. The story starts at the bottom and goes to the top; I can't flip it without rearranging every pic.  Anyway, here's the collection if anyone wants to take a look. It's in the 'Happy Jurij' universe at an unspecified sf time period. I'm adding to it as and when. I shall probably turn it into a novel novel sometime perhaps with some of the pics in it.

 

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/collection/pM4mosCTFHngFLKADL6p?ru=CardinalBiggles 

fan art for Simon

 So, there's this lovely bloke called Seamus, aka Eshtan, find him here: https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/Seamus_H_7 who read 'The Unexpected Demon' and has created some fan art - he posted the slight bishes as well as the near perfect one.  

isn't it gorgeous? it encapsulates that love at first sight thing.  Eshtan has made Simon a present of these pics, because he's a very generous guy - only I am not sure that I could expand this for the paramaters of a book cover.  I did my own messing about [I'll show you presently] but Simon and I were deeply touched. 

 

I love his surprise in this one!

this one very much encapsulates Chessina's essential innocence and air of being untouched by the evil she has lived with.

AI has a tendency to mess with the descriptions of two people - giving Castamir red eyes in several, and here, giving him tiny horns all over his head. In a way, the poses in this one are the best though.

 

So, I tried to come up with something in the 9:16 format, which is close and takes least sodding about, but in the end, I picked one of Castamir I was working on for the evil elves [and this has stimulated Simon no end, he was sitting up in bed with pencil and notebook scribbling]  so I thank Eshtan for that too! 

Anyway, this is what I did:

took this, airbrushed out birds and rocks, so I could make a whole background grey

made some swirling smoke

got a Chessina I liked - funnily enough the free engine did this better. When I had her enlarged I used another image to touch up her face and another to add a raised hand 

I regret there's no eye contact, but we can see both faces, she's looking around in confusion and fear and Castamir is in a slightly bemused state 

 

 

Anyway, I have an image or two which might prove useful, and a heap that probably won't, AI hates combining two people in an image if not actually romantically involved in the pic.

Go give Seamus's work a look - I'm on the same site as CardinalBiggles https://creator.nightcafe.studio/game/V03Yu5YPIR8P9CMqG4Ub/entry/Q1foNFUA9WfCyBaJK3kD?ru=CardinalBiggles

so [gulp] I have set up the first selling thing...

 ... a set of 3 borders on https://www.buymeacoffee.com/N4rT4ApLzv/e/109520 to see how it works. I don't know if the download is automatic or if I have to be contacted... these are the pics, on transparent not blue, the blue is to show them up.

Wish me luck! I was going to have 9 borders, but the zip file was too big.

Cover reveals

 I am planning on making future cover reveals on my buymeacoffee blog posts

 

I'll welcome any feedback on them.