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Book Cover Art and Design

Since the beginning, my main intention back in the days was making book covers and illustration for

books in the genre of Science Fiction and Fantasy. I did not know where I would end up, but I ended up

with a profession that I feel home the most with.

Environment Art and Illustration

Commissions and Personal Work of surreal and epic landscapes. I use a mixture of different techniques

that are common in concept art. The most influence came from the art and artists of Guild Wars 2.

Nebulae and the Universe

Regarding space and the universe, nebulae sparked my fascination the most. So, I tried to find ways to portray them in a

realistic way. As I experiment a lot, I found ways via Apophysis and Chaotica Studio to play around with fractals.

About Me

Hello there, my name is Daniel Schmelling. I am a Freelance Book Cover Designer for the genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as an artist of digital nature, dedicated to environments, landscapes and scenery art, including space art, for different kinds of media such as for websites, books and more.

Very early on in my career, which started in Digital Illustration class at Berliner Technische Kunschule, I had a kind of fascination with landscapes, space and environments. Especially, environments with organic shapes and vast mountains and forests did it to me at first.

At art school I found that dedication to environments and landscapes very quick and even earlier, i kind of thought about making book covers for a living someday. So that intention was always there.

I also picked up concept art very fast and tried out many techniques, that I still use in my work today. Also Photography helped me a lot for the sense of composition and dynamic light.
I am heavily influenced by the concept artist, as well as the Art of Guild Wars/Guild Wars 2.

After graduating from art school at 2013, I worked for a few small game companies as a environment concept artist and doing background artworks as promotional artworks and nebulae skyboxes for a space game.

A few years passed and I did frequent reflection on what I do and I came to the conclusion, that working on videogames is just not my thing and that I do not feel home on that regard.

From there I went to do book cover design and this is the niché I found to be were I feel home the most.

Since 2018 I do book covers for various authors in the genre of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

First doing cover art only and then over time extending my skills further to ebook / paperback cover art and cover lettering, layout design and typography.

Fast forward to today, I now want to go further and learn about book interior design to be able to do high quality book interiors and formatting services for my clients.

I am not there yet, but working on it.

Services I am currently able to deliver:

- Book Cover Design for Ebook/Print-ready PDF Paperback and Hardcover

- Social Media Graphics for your book projects

- Cover Artworks, mainly for Environment -,Landscape -and Scenery Art

- Layout, Lettering and Typography for book covers

- Environment -and Landscape Artworks/Illustrations

- Space Background Art(e.g. nebulae, planets, stars, comets, asteroids etc.)

- Artstyles: realistic, painterly, abstract, minimalistic, surreal, smudgy,


Pricing

 -------------Artwork/Illustration-------------

- Custom Artwork/Illustration for promotions, adverts, banners, booths etc.: 850 EUR
- Small(1/4 page size): 300 EUR
- Medium(1/2 page size): 600 EUR
- Large(paperback cover sized): 850 EUR
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- Very large(big poster size, banners): 1200 EUR
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-------------Book Interior Design-------------

Not yet.

-------------Cover Design-------------

- Ebook cover art and graphic design: 895 EUR
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- Print paperback cover art and graphic design: 1395 EUR
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- Ebook + Print, paperback art and graphic design included: 1700 EUR
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------------- Additional content-------------

- Social Media Cover Photos: + 150 EUR
- Social Media Adverts (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Emailings, Website, Banner etc.) : + 150 EUR
- 3D-Mockups(five different views of the paperback book cover) : + 280 EUR
- Web Adverts and Emailing( 10 different formats for web and emailing ): + 150 EUR


It is also possible to request the "Additional Content" for your existing paperback cover, as well as standalone artworks or promotional art that represents or envisions the world of your book. This can also be done in combination for your booth at conventions or fairs in terms of banners or posters.

I always let payments to be made in installments, so that it can be managed in a flexible way. Usually I split the installments in several parts, but if the price is reaching a critical point for an individual, I grant the price to be paid in a monthly matter. Of course those payment plans can be changed, if the client is able to pay much faster than expected. The last installment is not neccessarily equal to the estimated finishing date, which means that the finishing date can be planned independently.


Do not hesitate to ask, if anything is unclear.

If you are interested and would like to work with me or have any questions regarding my service or work, please feel free to send me a request.

I am based in Germany so my design skills can be offered in both German(native) and English(fluent).

I look forward to your projects!


*Taking life situations into consideration, the prices are not absolute and are open for negotiation!

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