Bio and Links: Stella Price is a multi-published award winning author and cover artist. She is the Art Director for Tease Publishing, and does artistic consulting for several firms in the field. She is a cover artist for BluPh'ier publishing, Mystic Moon Press, FireDrake Weyr, Phaze books and does all the exclusive design work for several bands and Authors.
With over 12 years experience and a BA in Industrial Design, Stella Price brings new life to the graphics industry with her designs. Please see her client list for all the companies she has and does work with/for.
Check out her author website at http://www.stellaandaudra.com/ and her full deviant art portfolio at: http://stellaprice.deviantart.com/gallery and her website home: Twilight Industries: http://www.twilightindustries.net/
Q&A:
1) When did you know you wanted to be a Graphic Artist?
I have always been an artist. I went to college for Industrial Design and Special effects. My Major was puppetry, my minor was English. Go figure. I actually had no desire to be a 2D artist, I loved model making and prosthetics, so I was never really into the graphic art. It wasn’t till I got into the Literature and publishing industry and saw what was passing for covers that I got interested.
2) How long does it take you to do a (design, book cover, website)?
Book covers can take anywhere from 2 days to 4 months, depending on the intricacies of the piece. Websites, take about a week to design and then three days to set up. I’m not the fastest out there, but I feel the work I do is quality.
3) Where do you get your inspiration?
I look at everything in a conceptual light. When I do a cover, I think “would think look good on the shelf at the bookstore?” and work from that.
4) Any tips for aspiring Graphic Artists?
Learn how to use your program. always work on projects and try to better your work. There are leaders in the covers industry, study them, see what kind of work others are doing… see if you can do the same, and take it one step further. Always, Always hone your craft.
5) How do you calculate your price for one of your (figures, book covers, websites)?
Depends on the amount of work you put in. Covers I personally charge a flat fee, but I have a large enough portfolio that I can charge a flat fee and they know they are getting quality. For websites, again, it depends on the amount of work you do for the site.
6) What is your favorite (book cover, figure, website) that you’ve created?
I have a few, but my two favorites would have to be Kayleigh Jamisons’s Leading Her to Heaven cover and Adra Steia’s Swamp Baby cover.
7) Is there a place other than your website, where we can view your work?
My deviant Art Page: http://stellaprice.devaintart.com/gallery
8) I know there a few programs that an Artist uses to create their work, such as Daz or Photoshop, what do you use?
I use PSP X exclusively.
9) Silly Time, what would a lion, elephant, zebra, penguin and snake look like smooshed together to create one animal and what would you call this new creature?
Good lord that sounds like something you dream about after a bottle of tequila and couple of rancid bratwurst.
10) Anything you want to say or add? Anything you want to ask me? And for the record, yes I am crazy so you can’t ask that.
LOL nope… LOL.
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Frost and Flame: A tale of the Eververse
Book Three
Stella and Audra Price
Thirteen years is a long time apart… and enough time to make things right… and when Fire and Ice Collide…
The Exiled prince and rightful heir of the Conglacio Throne, Cassiel, Casha or Cash to his friends and family, has dealt with much in the past thirteen years, madness, betrayal and the loss of not only his first born child but its mother, Princess Faris, Heir to the Cento throne. He’s spent his time on earth wisely, trying to collect the ten thousand souls he needs to return home, to get back to his Family, his throne and his Princess, and kill the Demon that took it all from him. He’s not even Close to attaining his goal.
Princess Faris had a plan, one that involved returning to the love of her life, regardless of the consequences. It seems now the stakes are much higher, as she doesn’t want History to repeat itself. Nothing will stand in her way, not her would-be Husband, her father’s right hand man, or her Father, King of the Centos and overlord of the Afterverse. After all, lighting doesn’t strike the same place twice…
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