Tag: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

So these next two are for Never Kill a Boy on the First Date and the Pack.

Never Kill a Boy on the First Date is a long title so I tried to make sure there was room for it. I thought something cutest for the silhouetted boy and girl poses would be good. Then the vampire grabbing at his feet because kinda the running thing in the episode is that he’s in danger more so than Buffy or the Scoobies. Hoping from grave to grave is because there is to reference the prophecy in the episode about several people dying. The other version I thought the ribbon with the title had an old fashion school dance feel so I tried to do that with the characters too. Again there is the monsters grabbing at him because he’s the one in danger. And again I did the graves. I also added the broken bus to the background.

For The Pack, I thought about Mondo’s prints for The Jungle Book. I liked how it was all in the shape of the tiger. So I did that with the hyena here. I mostly played with the pose of the hyena because of how much I like that idea. Then the spots lead down to silhouettes of a group of kids laughing at another. The one on the left I think works better and is more dynamic.

Episode 3 is called The Witch. The plot is a witch is cursing cheerleaders. The first design I started with two mundane objects from the plot and then the witches caldron. It is a little mundane looking. The second version of this design I designed on taking a cheerleading trophy from the end and put the various curse effects on the trophy. So it’s blindfolded, has no mouth and one hand is on fire. I kept one hand in tack to you can see it’s for cheerleading. Then it submerged in the caldron adds some more dread to the picture. Also smoke from the spell makes for a nice way to do the letters.

Episode 4 teacher’s pet is a little harder. The title doesn’t really help with the visuals. Miss. French being a preying mantis is kinda supposed to be a reveal so I didn’t want to do anything two obvious. So I first tried sexy silhouette where the teacher’s pointer wand is cutting off student’s heads might work at implying that future without giving it away. Then I was stuck on a second idea. Since she is a bug monster I thought maybe having her pinning boy students like butterflies might be good since she is also teaching bio. If I finish one it will probably be the first one.

I liked Witch a lot so that’s one of the finished title cards.

So I’ve been doing cover design exercises by trying to design title cards for Buffy Episodes.

So the first is Welcome to the Hellmouth. The first design is the school on top of a well the Hellmouth. I thought making the school tiny over that toothy deep hole. It doesn’t look quite a good as it did in my head. So I might tighten it up a little.

Then second design for it I wanted the entrance of the school to be threatening with fire inside the doors. Since the whole point of Buffy is high school as hell metaphor. This design was easier to nail down.

The Harvest I could only come up with one solid idea. You can’t see them cause I kept erasing them, but I kept trying cornucopia with body parts in it or full of blood. They didn’t really work. This last one was using cornucopias as fangs. It’s still not really working.

The second design works better. The master is so pale and has those shape fingernails. So using his hand and finger as a scythe which tiny figures about to be cut down. That will probably be the one of the two I clean up. It’s why I eventually did a finished version.

While I’m in between big projects I wanted to do an exercise to get better at designing covers. So I’m making title cards for Buffy episodes. I did roughs for every episode of season 1 and $5 patreon backers got to vote on which ones I finished up.

This is for episode 7 Angel. I wanted to keep Angel in shadow so that the title card didn’t give too much away, even though cultural osmiss means everyone already knows he’s a vampire. Since Angel focused episodes are usually more romance focused, I looked up pallettes from the Sailor Moon anime so things would be moody but not too dark.

While I’m in between big projects I wanted to do an exercise to get better at designing covers. So I’m making title cards for Buffy episodes. I did roughs for every episode of season 1 and $5 patreon backers got to vote on which ones I finished up.

This is for episode 3, Witch. I tried to stick to greens and yellows for an eerie scene. I included the cheerleading trophy from the episode. Then I put tried to show a few of the curses cast on the different cheerleaders. The girl who catches on fire and Cordelia losing her vision were the easiest to convey.