Back in Time - No.154

Quite often, creating a new Echelon work starts with creating a new spaceship or Flying Thing. Then I build a scene around it. A ship will start as a simple shape or silhouette and I add just minimal features. They don’t get too involved as I am searching for a certain expression. Most Echelon works each have their own ‘new’ flying thing’ but sometimes I need to use one more than once, as in the Episode below. 

This scene below started with the large central looming object (which could be a ship or flying thing) but was created in tandem with the ground lines. Everything builds then forms. In this scene the ships were the last to arrive and were taken from a previous scene.

It’s Starting To Form

I am Starting to play around with some cover ideas, designs and images for the book, which is now scheduled to be out next spring 2024. I’ll continue to play around with it as we hash out the dimensions (I think it should be square) and the cover material. Will it be a soft or hard cover? Will there be foil stamping or embossing? How about all of the above! ??

I’ve chosen these three images for different reasons. They will each convey a different initial feeling response from the reader and the publisher, editor and I will have to figure out what we want.

The first one is more dynamic and explosive. The second is a bit quieter and is the first Echelon picture I made and kinda always thought this one would be the cover of the book if there ever was one. And the third image is very quiet, very meditative. I think all of these describe Echelon.