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The Urge for Love, brought to you by a lovely sponsor by the username plethomacademia, who came up with the incredible name and concept for this fantastical clinch novel.

I really wanted to push that 80's cover look a bit harder than I did for the Hellsbound Hearts piece. I studied a lot of backgrounds and the painting techniques for them to try and capture that a bit more. I also noticed that a lot of these old clinch covers use teal/blue and pale yellows quite a bit.

I'm quite proud of the lettering on this one, and also painfully aware that I need to learn Illustrator so I can actually do this the proper way instead of bruteforcing it with liner brushes haha.

Hope you all are well!!

~Lily

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kosch

LILY AHHHH OMGGGG I LOVE THIS

kosch

Tell your patron I love them dearly for this idea

feyspeaker

hahaha, thank youuuuu!!!!!! these are so much fun ;A; If I had the time I would love to do more of them.

Erin Lemons

Genuinely speaking, I would 100% love for these to be book covers and short web novels 😂 I love going into Barns and Nobel’s and seeing that one section of just RIDICULOUS romance novels with the photoshopped covers. Obviously this is 10x better 😂😂😂 On a more serious note! I really love the way you’re reflecting light from the Dragonborn onto his face—it’s really well done and the details, as always, are *muah* chefs kiss 💋

Lilithdahobbit

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NOTIFICATION TO OPEN

kosch

I hope you're able to do more in the future!!! These are so wonderful 😭💜💜 (I would simply cease to exist if you ever did a cheesy vampire smut novel cover for Bloodweave!!)

kosch

I know I already commented but the blood? The claw? The wounds???? Omfg. Absolutely perfection 👏🏻👏🏻

Maya

This is stunning, Lily! I have such a soft spot for default Dark Urge and durgetash in general and this is just absolutely beautiful! I adore cheesy 80s romance novel covers and this captures it perfectly! 🖤

North

Oh, this is fantastic. I grew up in the age of lush SFF and romance covers, and this series is just giving me so much joy on that basis alone, even aside from how lovely the images themselves have been.

feyspeaker

Thank you!! Oh man that would be awesome!! And haha, I have mixed feelings about the Photoshopped ones but the old painted ones just made me drool when I was younger lol. Absolutely a major influence for me. I had been dying to paint one of my own but never felt up to the task until more recently.

feyspeaker

Thank you so much!! I think the default Durge is just so COOL! Such a creepy little lizard, just love the colors. Romance novel covers are the best. ;A;

Erin Lemons

Oh man, the painted ones definitely made me have a…love… of painting men 😂 Now I’m questioning whether or not the reason why I like painting men is because of romance novels… 🤔

feyspeaker

Thank you so much!! I used to fawn over the covers when my mom would take me to the used bookstore near the house. I always felt so sneaky pulling them out and looking at them.

Křeček Tinková

oh my, going only slightly feral over this one (lying)

Scarlet Wings

Whether you brute force it with another tool you're used to, it looks absolutely EPIC, every time. It's always a fun change of pace to switch to research for a while, I find. Well done!

Ella Bee

AHHHH, MY OTP <3 ! :D I love these cover art pieces, it works so incredibly well :D

D'Artagnan Wayland

It's an amazing cover/poster look and I love the sense of closeness between them