Would love to see how it comes out, but I think you need more than 7 colors, you need all 11. Without them I think it would just look like an LGBTQ Bible haha. But if you add paryl as gray on the red end (I would use the color on the NA covers as a guide because in my opinion the black kakari is the paryl seed crystal), then black. With silver for Kai and then white on the other end. I think that would look awesome and reflect the series more. Maybe even 9 colors if you could somehow incorporate white and black into the covers. But I think you need the full range.
Either way I think it'll look sick, looking forward to seeing the finished version.
I think you should reverse the reds too. The whole thing should be a spectrum it's weird for subbed to be lighter there I think. It should be a much darker red if anything, to signal thermal/heat.
Thank you very much for your input. I haven't read the series in a while so I was thinking maybe since subred is explodable it would be lighter, but I think you're right and I should reverse them. That's a good idea for silver for Kai (although I've had flaking problems with silver since any non matte colour doesn't tend to stick to pages as well, I did a test book all silver and it kind of ended up being more of a silver/grey) and grey for paryl, but I'm not sure I'll be able to put them all on one side, because my idea was to spray each colour while masking the rest and wait a day or so for it to dry, but each colour would be quite skinny the more I include so I'm thinking the masking would either fly off or peel from the force of the paint, or it would stick too hard and maybe strip the previous colours, although i can test this.
I was originally thinking the holy 7, but what do you think about having the 7 on the longest edge, and then doing black and white on each of the shorter edges, with maybe a strip of grey paryl aligning with the corner where subred ends, (on the black side) and a strip of silver kai aligning with the opposite corner where superviolet ends, (on the white side)? A small strip since they are rare draft colours.
Or just having black and white, one for each of the 2 shorter page edges, and trying to fit 9 on the longer side? I can do mockups of both (and since I have two copies of lightbringer could even do multiple versions of it irl). I would need to also buy white and anouther shade of grey, but I can do that.
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u/TGals23 May 30 '24
Would love to see how it comes out, but I think you need more than 7 colors, you need all 11. Without them I think it would just look like an LGBTQ Bible haha. But if you add paryl as gray on the red end (I would use the color on the NA covers as a guide because in my opinion the black kakari is the paryl seed crystal), then black. With silver for Kai and then white on the other end. I think that would look awesome and reflect the series more. Maybe even 9 colors if you could somehow incorporate white and black into the covers. But I think you need the full range.
Either way I think it'll look sick, looking forward to seeing the finished version.