I never really had much opportunity to share this before (I posted it to my seldom-used Deviantart account last year) but thought this site would appreciate it.
I know some absolutely amazing Tami fan art exists by SliceReality (the sheer amount of time and effort those pieces must take boggles my mind) but I hadn’t really seen any other fan art for the stories (at least on DA, which is where I primarily look for ENF-type artwork and the artists who draw it).
Last year I was gearing up to publishing a couple of novellas/short novels and wanted to minimise my production costs. I normally pay an illustrator to create my book covers but thought as these weren’t really proper full-length books I could make things a bit less costly to me if I took a stab at doing my own covers .
I’m no artist, more a passable cartoonist, but I reckoned I could do a decent job. However I thought that as it had been a long time since I’d drawn anything like that, I should probably practice.
So by way of a practice I drew Tami.
As I said, this was posted on DA – but as you can only view NSFW art if you have a membership there, I don’t think many of my usual readers saw it; so I’m sharing it here now.
Anyway, here’s Tami in the snow.
(I wasn’t going for any particular scene from the stories, just a general impression of the poor girl being out in very bad weather in her requisite attire and not exactly having the best time.)
Thanks!
You got the red hair (upper and lower) and the ankle pouch.
As for book covers . . . I see the job you did with yours. I don’t know if I could be that ambitious. You are correct in that it must take Slice a huge amount of time to do each of his masterpieces.
I did the cover for my (one) book on Amazon and it was a lot of fun. Using the Paint program, I assembled clip art silhouettes and played around with them. (Not that it was a success — in two and a half years I’ve sold exactly 5 copies.)
It’s a pretty freaking strange world where I’m responsible for 20% of an author’s multi-year sales figures. Please, world, push my percentage down!
IMHO, “The Sire Project” is a better story with a better main character than Tami. The story line is more believable, and it’s treated with more sensitivity to the main character.
Ella,
Thanks very much! So you’re one of the five. (Maybe the other four will surface someday.)
Looking at my Kindle sales history chart (which looks like a comb with all but five teeth missing) you must have purchased the first edition. The second (uploaded August 2019) is greatly expanded and in my view flows better. You more than anyone would appreciate that it cleans up the mistakes in typos and grammar. Email me at donnylaja@aol.com and I’ll send you a free copy.