{"id":4763,"date":"2016-11-22T22:57:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T22:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2016-11-22T23:11:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T23:11:01","slug":"cover-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover work: RAETIAN TALES"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Covers. Even when they’re almost done they’re not that<\/em> almost done…<\/p>\n

Here the mountain girl Mariarta dil Alicg and her great-stag Grugni look down at a bewitched Aletsch Glacier in a color \u201csketch\u201d of the wraparound cover for the forthcoming paperback (and the re-cover for the ebook version) of Raetian Tales: A Wind from the South<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

The character rendering is in DAZ Studio<\/a>: the background rendering, in Terragen 3.0<\/a>. The terrain is derived from Swiss radar data of the Jungfrau region, accurate to about a meter: the three-glacier junction known as \u201cPlace de la Concorde\u201d is directly below.<\/p>\n

\u2026Yeah, I know, Mati needs a winter coat. I\u2019m working on it. The trouble is that most of the women’s coats available at Daz seem designed to show as much of the woman as possible.\u00a0 (In fact 98% of the women’s clothing there constitutes the most blatant proof possible of the Male Gaze concept.)\u00a0 Right now Mariarta’s wearing men’s clothes (which is fine since she’s doing that in the book as well), but finding a decent men’s winter coat that also looks like something you might have worn in the 1100s is proving a little bit of a challenge.<\/p>\n

And forget cloaks. I refuse to put Mariarta in a cloak. Every damn pre-medieval heroine seems to wear a cloak. And this is a huntress who doesn’t need a damn cloak flapping around while she runs around the Alps shooting chamois and hunting down rogue goddesses.<\/p>\n

(sigh) Back to it. There’s work still to be done on the glacier and some of the snow, and I’m not sure I’m happy with the lighting yet…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Covers. Even when they’re almost done they’re not that almost done… Here the mountain girl Mariarta dil Alicg and her great-stag Grugni look down at a bewitched Aletsch Glacier in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[755,754,23,632,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-books-2","category-ebooks","category-fantasy-and-sf","category-raetian-tales"],"yoast_head":"\nCover work: RAETIAN TALES - Out of Ambit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A color sketch of the new cover for Diane Duane's RAETIAN TALES 1: A WIND FROM THE SOUTH\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cover work: RAETIAN TALES - Out of Ambit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A color sketch of the new cover for Diane Duane's RAETIAN TALES 1: A WIND FROM THE SOUTH\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Out of Ambit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-11-22T22:57:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-11-22T23:11:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Wind-From-The-South-Test-Render-2-Luminous-Glacier.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Diane Duane\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@dduane\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@dduane\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/22\\\/cover-work\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/22\\\/cover-work\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Diane Duane\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c95a368813271f614d9104b74dfd83d8\"},\"headline\":\"Cover work: RAETIAN TALES\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-11-22T22:57:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-11-22T23:11:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/22\\\/cover-work\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":274,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c95a368813271f614d9104b74dfd83d8\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/22\\\/cover-work\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/Wind-From-The-South-Test-Render-2-Luminous-Glacier.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Art\",\"Books\",\"ebooks\",\"Fantasy and SF\",\"Raetian Tales\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/22\\\/cover-work\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/22\\\/cover-work\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/22\\\/cover-work\\\/\",\"name\":\"Cover work: RAETIAN TALES - Out of Ambit\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/22\\\/cover-work\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/22\\\/cover-work\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/Wind-From-The-South-Test-Render-2-Luminous-Glacier.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-11-22T22:57:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-11-22T23:11:01+00:00\",\"description\":\"A color sketch of the new cover for Diane Duane's RAETIAN TALES 1: A WIND FROM THE SOUTH\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/22\\\/cover-work\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/22\\\/cover-work\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/Wind-From-The-South-Test-Render-2-Luminous-Glacier.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/Wind-From-The-South-Test-Render-2-Luminous-Glacier.jpg\",\"width\":1800,\"height\":1000},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/\",\"name\":\"Out of Ambit\",\"description\":\"Diane Duane's weblog\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c95a368813271f614d9104b74dfd83d8\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c95a368813271f614d9104b74dfd83d8\",\"name\":\"Diane Duane\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg\",\"width\":400,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"Diane Duane\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/dduane\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/author\\\/ooaadmin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Cover work: RAETIAN TALES - Out of Ambit","description":"A color sketch of the new cover for Diane Duane's RAETIAN TALES 1: A WIND FROM THE SOUTH","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Cover work: RAETIAN TALES - Out of Ambit","og_description":"A color sketch of the new cover for Diane Duane's RAETIAN TALES 1: A WIND FROM THE SOUTH","og_url":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/","og_site_name":"Out of Ambit","article_published_time":"2016-11-22T22:57:35+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-11-22T23:11:01+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1800,"height":1000,"url":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Wind-From-The-South-Test-Render-2-Luminous-Glacier.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Diane Duane","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@dduane","twitter_site":"@dduane","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["Article","BlogPosting"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/"},"author":{"name":"Diane Duane","@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/#\/schema\/person\/c95a368813271f614d9104b74dfd83d8"},"headline":"Cover work: RAETIAN TALES","datePublished":"2016-11-22T22:57:35+00:00","dateModified":"2016-11-22T23:11:01+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/"},"wordCount":274,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/#\/schema\/person\/c95a368813271f614d9104b74dfd83d8"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Wind-From-The-South-Test-Render-2-Luminous-Glacier.jpg","articleSection":["Art","Books","ebooks","Fantasy and SF","Raetian Tales"],"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/","url":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/","name":"Cover work: RAETIAN TALES - Out of Ambit","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Wind-From-The-South-Test-Render-2-Luminous-Glacier.jpg","datePublished":"2016-11-22T22:57:35+00:00","dateModified":"2016-11-22T23:11:01+00:00","description":"A color sketch of the new cover for Diane Duane's RAETIAN TALES 1: A WIND FROM THE SOUTH","inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/11\/22\/cover-work\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Wind-From-The-South-Test-Render-2-Luminous-Glacier.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Wind-From-The-South-Test-Render-2-Luminous-Glacier.jpg","width":1800,"height":1000},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/","name":"Out of Ambit","description":"Diane Duane's weblog","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/#\/schema\/person\/c95a368813271f614d9104b74dfd83d8"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/#\/schema\/person\/c95a368813271f614d9104b74dfd83d8","name":"Diane Duane","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg","width":400,"height":400,"caption":"Diane Duane"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/dduane"],"url":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/author\/ooaadmin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4771,"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions\/4771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}