{"id":3044,"date":"2026-09-14T14:43:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2026-09-15T09:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:05:55","slug":"book-cover-terminal-samsara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/2026\/3044","title":{"rendered":"Book Cover: “Terminal Samsara”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Full cover design, spread illustration, and lettering made for the first tome of Ken Tablot’s science-fiction saga, Terminal Samsara<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The client gave me several options for the cover, between a set of portraits (draft 1), vintage pulp (draft 2), or a scenic snapshot of one of the story events (draft 3). We eventually went with the latter, and built a spread illustration around a fight scene between the main protagonists and two evil goons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My job, as such, was to design the characters following the descriptions in the novel, and place them in a grand and wealthy environment. The composition was built around the fountain, which showcases the peace treaty – handshake – between two races of the world. At the top of the stairs, two evil guys, one in a suit, and one in a typical sci-fi armor, are at the receiving end of the protagonists’ shooting. The idea here was to mix dynamism and grandeur, signaling the action-adventure aspect of the story, while also hinting at the science-fiction vibe (with the planet in the distance, the outfits, the modified weapons, the fountain’s details, etc). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lettering used, while simple-looking, was a call-back to typical sci-fi fonts, and served as another hint to gear the viewer towards intergalactic races rather than modern-day or fantasy influences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about the author here: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kendomustdie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Full cover with lettering<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Physical copy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Draft 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Draft 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Draft 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Atlernate Lettering<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Full cover design, spread illustration, and lettering made for the first tome of Ken Tablot’s science-fiction saga, Terminal Samsara. The client gave me several options for the cover, between a set of portraits (draft 1), vintage pulp (draft 2), or a scenic snapshot of one of the story events (draft 3). We eventually went with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"portfolio-page","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,37],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustrated","tag-homepage","tag-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}