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  Comment by Diana Pharaoh Francis — September 8, 2011 @ 12:24 pm

  I do love the covers you’ve done for me! I’m curious though, I’d love to hear a bit more about how you create the piece. Is it digital? Mixed media? other?

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  Comment by Shane — September 8, 2011 @ 12:34 pm

  Hello Diana, thanks very much for your kind comment! I’m thrilled to hear you like how the cover turned out.
  To varying degrees, my work is usually a combination of photographic elements (in this case, the woman, the alley, and the buildings in the background) combined with textures in Photoshop. The textures I use can be photos of old wood or metal, stained paper, or hand-painted textures. I’ll often also use a tablet with Photoshop to paint in certain elements or emphasize others. So, to answer your question, it’s a little bit of all of them. The end result is always a digital file, and the process is digital, but it’s a combination of photography and natural media.
  While I’ve only had the pleasure to illustrate two of your covers, I do look forward to them because what’s not fun about illustrating a woman in leather holding guns and swords? ;)

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  Comment by Diana Pharaoh Francis — September 9, 2011 @ 4:28 pm

  You do such a wonderful job. And you really captured the city and Max, with the exception of the shoes. She wouldn’t be caught dead in those :D I love the kind of industrial/watercolory look to the background.

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  Comment by Missy S — September 11, 2011 @ 4:11 pm

  I really do think that’s awesome!!! I have to say… though Max wouldn’t wear those shoes, I do think she might be sneaky and do the blue toe polish when no one is looking. LOL

  It’s a shame those towers got cut out in the background b/c I think that really screams ‘Shadow City’ to me. But it’s perfect for the book!

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