fantasy i made a video like this in NUMBER_TOKEN but like jessie nelson skin the trench just kept changing this video was sponsored by squarespace hi it's david chi what is the g stand for the g stands for gagging and crying because recently it looks like why a fantasy has had a bbl in the past couple of years and i feel like there's so many variations of fantasy covers now i could be a whole series in itself and like you if you would like that i am just so glad that we've kind of matured and stepped away from this whole trend of like confused girl stepped out of the club hopped onto the set of game of thrones and is trying to run away from the main art that was really such a specific joke you have to be in a really niche pocket of the internet sub trend number one is this passport border control what's the number one thing you need to find out background bark texture leaves forest fire air long ago the four nations live together sometimes the background is just like sneaky that's going to give you technology if you touch it george mcdonald is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern fantasy and in his literature he often connected nature and fantasy together if you think about it fantasy is nothing without the edenic scenes main characters rolling and riding down the hill wind blowing grass and the breeze they're climbing the cavernous mountains like they really care about this pgl trip to wales and nature is common a lot of fantasy because it allows for escapism it's a universal landscape for reference even individual elements such as trees across folklore throughout history and time trees have been used as a symbol of life of magic of wisdom there's whole ass dissertations on this topic if you're more interested in terms of cover design it does make sense for a lot of fantasy covers to still have this element of the natural world with them another thing you'll need some NUMBER_TOKENd rendered looking high contrast stuff swords lots of swords a lot of roses a lot of leaves crowns some illuminati symbolism going on or barbed wires intricate gates and a lot of decorative borders i'm not gonna lie i can't tell some of these apart apart from caraval and i don't know if that's because it was one of the earlier ones to kind of feature this type of trend cannot look at reverie and not tell me that caraval was not a direct influence except reveries she's suffering from vertigo i don't know what's going on here girl what colors are you gonna need golds blacks reds blues just a lot of dark rich colors and then for the font something serious something NUMBER_TOKENd looking i feel like this one's quite fun with like texture being the same as the decorative board is so using all these elements you know what you're here for i'm trying to make my inversion right before we get to that let's talk about squarespace a little bit if you are watching this and you're creative or just someone who kind of needs a website you don't need to spend hours on wNUMBER_TOKEN schools although you can do that still if you want sometimes we just live here stop at us and one of them is like building a website i used to
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