traveo2343

Looking for Artists to create the below set of works. Terms are $1500-$3000 for commission only for the set or $1200 advance + royalties for the set. Dimensions should be 10"x15" (height x width) inches in landscape, remember these will be book covers.

I need these created. I'm looking for top quality work only. My House gives full credits to all of our contributors in the books as well as on the website. Your work will also be added to our gallery on DA. Please contact me with any questions you may have. Directions for submission are on the website, I can also be reached via DA.

TQ1


Approaching Star Rashanon, the space-faring civilization unfolds in the form of densely populated heavy industry orbiting lifeless but resource rich planets and asteroids. The system has outer gas giants, and just passing one such, with a complex mining station, perhaps tiny ships are in transit towards the mind-boggling ring of industrial machinery nearer the distant sun. The huge distances are portrayed not in the foreshortened way we view our own solar system but in three vivid dimensions. I see it as though Villimy Dy (pale blue skinned, large-eyed temptress with her short white hair) gazes out a transparent window, part of her reflection just visible against the night, her eye overlapping the star, which is the same vivid shade of gold.

Genre: Sci-Fi

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TQ2


An ocean world in painfully close orbit to a dying red dwarf, flaring fitfully and dominating the view. The tidally locked planet is frozen solid on the night face, and harshly red in the gloomy light of the day face, with a cracked and broken border dividing them. Trails of mist, almost like a comet tail, trace the course of the planets orbit as it is boiled away relentlessly into space. A black speck against the monstrous shape of the dim red sun, the outline of a hulking ship, hardly visible at such distance, but perhaps dilapidated and sinister nonetheless. The whole disk of a spiral galaxy dominates the night beyond.

Genre: Sci-Fi


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TQ3 (I had trouble with this one, there's so much good action in there. . . but it seem almost an injustice to try and paint the drama of the black-hole generator being used as a weapon. It boggles the mind.


Great hulking colony ships are lined up in single file, bright blue light screaming from the fusion reactors aft. Spherical warships bristling with weaponry are not in line but near it, patrolling. From the very immediate dwindling down to a speck in nothingness, looking back along the line it seems to go on forever, these ships springing in solemn procession from the bluish depths of the nebula far behind them. It is lit with fitful light and much of it has the natural and organic shape that is familiar to our eyes, but parts are odd, somehow, pulled into a honeycomb pattern in the heart of the nebula, flickering with arcs of darkness.



Alternately;

The macabre form of a gleaming black robot in shape completely analogous to a human skeleton crouches in a very human way upon soil lushly green even in the dark of night. It gently lays a flourishing evergreen seedling into a small hole prepared for it in the earth. Behind, a field of tiny saplings gives way to lush but geometrically perfect forest. Its hideous death’s-head is turned to face us with a devastating malevolence lurking in empty eye sockets, and in the night beyond a stunning but distant blue nebula lights a corner of the sky.

Genre: Sci-Fi