Criminal Minds Big Bang Challenge: "The Last Best Days" Cover Art & Trailer

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Title: The Last Best Days (link takes you to the fic's masterpost)
Fic Authors: innerslytherin and severity-softly

Teasers

Comments

[resolucidity]

Outstanding job on the art and trailer. Truly magnificent.

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Thank you!

[innerslytherin]

I just wanted to tell you publicly how much I love what you did with this. The trailer is just fantastic, and the quotes you chose are perfect. The music (I went out and bought the whole album by Mono, and have Laura Pausini on my wishlist now) is great. And the cover art.... Man. I just love all of this. I'm so glad we got you as our artist, and that you slogged through all those words! :)

[tli]

Oh, I am so relieved and thrilled that you like the art and trailer. Esecially the cover, because digital art is so far outside my comfort zone it's not even funny, but I needed something as a backup in case the trailer didn't come together in time, which fortunately it did. Thank you so much for the feedback :)

[severity_softly]

Esecially the cover, because digital art is so far outside my comfort zone

OMG You would never know it by looking! I wish I could do that!

[severity_softly]

This is just amazing. The trailer was so well done, and I especially loved the first song. The quotes were just perfect.

The cover art is absolutely beautiful, and I think it captures so much of the fic, both the closeness and love, as well as how much something like this can shake you. The "smoke" (is that a brush?) is so pretty and haunting, and whatever effect you did on the pictures rocks!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

[tli]

Thank you so much for that! And I really am glad you like the cover - I can usually just about crop and fiddle with pictures that way, but putting this together was just one very long experiment! And the ink drop isn't a brush (I never could figure out how to use those), it's part of a larger texture that I found that matched the overall effect I was going for. Basically I learned a lot about my photo editing program during this challenge ;)

Yay, you're welcome! Thank you for writing such a stunning story together (although... maybe more emphasis on the sunshine and puppies next time? :D )

[severity_softly]

maybe more emphasis on the sunshine and puppies next time?

LOL! YES. THIS.

[tli]

Thank you!

vid & cover

[iadorespike]

Very cool. Thanks!

Re: vid & cover

[tli]

Thank you for the comment! :)