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Not Another Paranormal Romance- Artwork 6

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I had another idea for the cover, style-wise. I was thinking of clean, detailed line art with flat colour (possibly pastels or desaturated).

I love this sketch so much. I did this when I was still struggling to draw character art that I was happy with and is one of the few good pieces from that period.

I decided for Gabriella's pose to have her leaning towards Noah. The arm near Cyrus is held up as if she's carrying a shield. She's shielding herself from him (it) and leaning towards Noah as he's going to be a big help to her against Cyrus ( I love coming up with the hows and whys for what I do!)

I think I might stick with the more cartoony illustration though. I have been developing a more cartoony style for my other stories and I prefer drawing in that style overall.

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Not Another Paranormal Romance-Artwork 5

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The first sketch is what gave me the idea for the name of this story, though I may change the name in the future as I'm not sure if the fake romance will be a large part of this story.

What better way for a demon to mess with a teenage girl than to 'fall in love' with her? This time, SHE doesn't fall for it. She KNOWS he's a creature of darkness and is immune to his charm.

The last two are more cover art ideas. I wanted to add Noah to the possible cover and keeping with the idea of it looking like a cute romance cover, I made it look as if she has to choose between the boys (well, the one boy and the demon pretending to be a boy)

The boys mirror each other for that balanced look and to show off their intentions. Noah has a Bible and Cyrus has a deformed heart. Gabriella's pose is a work-in-progress. I'm not sure yet how she's going to stand.

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Not Another Paranormal Romance- Artwork 4

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Here are some finalised drawings of all of the main and supporting characters.

Below the picture, I will list them from the top left to the bottom right.

Cyrus Hinds/The demon- In the first sketch, I made it look more like a 14-year-old boy, more human and with a softer face. In the second sketch, I made it look more creature-like, basically how I described it in my short story. I gave it more elf-like features and a sharper face. It doesn't look like a 14-year-old boy, but that's the point.

Gabriella Pierre- Her original design featured a short afro and a flower in her hair. I wanted to be more creative with her hair and decided to give her four smaller afro puffs. I also love how her face came out. I think she looks quite cute.

Amaya Graham- Her design stayed the same. Amaya is the sweet, harmless-looking, quiet friend. I did very loosely base her off an old friend from my school days. They share large spectacles and the long hair.

Marissa Ramdin- I wanted her to be very pretty with an elegant look to her. She's the effortlessly pretty friend that everyone's a little bit jealous of. I may work on her design a bit more.

Kadiah Toussaint- I'm quite happy with how she turned out, especially her hair. Back in my school days, I used to wear my hair in small twists and I hoped to recreate that style in drawing. I think I did quite well!

Sasha Antoine (pronounced Ant-wine)- Yes, Sasha is our 'mean girl'. I based her design on how I see the current high school girls styling themselves for school. I went for that cute, YK2 look with the baby hairs.

Noah McKenzie- He's a newer character I decided to add as support and a new friend for Gabriella. He's named after Noah from the Bible (I also just think Noah is a really cute name). I wanted him to physically contrast Cyrus. A lot about him is very soft and comforting while Cyrus evokes the opposite.

All characters except Cyrus and Noah are 14 years old. They are all in their 3rd year of secondary/high school (we have 5 years of secondary school in my country)

Cyrus is masquerading as a 14-year-old and Noah is 15 and in his 4th year of secondary/high school.

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Not Another Paranormal Romance- Artwork 3

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More cover art ideas and a couple of sketches from when this story had a lighter tone to it.

Gabriella was a very brave (in a stupid way) character who had great confidence in her protection from GOD and openly taunted a demon with it. At the time, I didn't know that you could still experience demon possession and oppression despite being an obedient Christian.

Gabriella is NOT an obedient Christian! I mean, who is when they're a teenager. That's very rare these days.

The current Gabriella takes this entity more seriously as throughout the story, she will learn more about what demons are really capable of.

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See below for more about the cover designs.

I wanted to do a minimalistic cover with just Gabriella and Cyrus. She would be outlined in white and him in black. I was thinking of pink or lavender for the background. I wanted it to look like it was hinting at a cutesy romance.

I also wanted little hints of Cyrus's true nature in his design. His back is to the audience to symbolise him hiding said nature. His slit pupil and the pentagram in his hair (he has it as a fade design) hint at that. My other sketch has a typical devil's tail and a fireball in his hand, but I thought that was going overboard.

The last two sketches are Gabriella taunting and triumphing over Cyrus. Don't taunt demons in real life, please. They're not like how they portray them in the movies. They are NOT nice. You WILL be hurt BADLY.

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Not Another Paranormal Romance- Artwork 2

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On these pages, I was writing the story. I made little sketches throughout. I was visualising how they would interact and also sketching out possible cover art ideas.

This story was originally a cutesy, light-hearted story where the protagonist cleanly defeats the villain, but now that I know the REAL truth about demons, this story will have a more serious tone.

The villain (Cyrus) is going to be so much more insidious.

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Not Another Paranormal Romance- Artwork 1

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These were my initial doodles of some of the characters for my story. This is how I usually start, so I can get an idea of how I want them to look. Some of them change in future artwork.

Gabriella (Denise) is the protagonist, Amaya is one of her friends, Cyrus is the demon/nephilim and Sasha, who has not been introduced yet is a minor antagonist.

Denise's name was changed to Gabriella, because the name Denise is connected to Diyonisus, a greek 'god' (more than likely one of the fallen or their offspring).

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