Blog - Jenneth Leed

Cover and Layout Design for “A Writer’s Wilderness”

JennethApril 12, 2021Book Covers, DesignLeave a Comment

Ever want to read a western…but with dragons? Kylee Kosoff just graduated with her degree in professional writing and published an anthology of her work (and yes, there be dragons in the west). I was happy to create the cover design and interior layout for her—trying to combine two completely different genres into a fresh, new idea was so appealing to me that I couldn’t say no. The book is also filled with beautiful illustrations done by the incredible Rebekah Webb.

If you’d like to purchase Kylee’s portfolio, you can find it on her website.

Blood Drive Highlight Video (Pensacola Christian College)

JennethApril 1, 2021Professional Videos, VideosLeave a Comment

While working in the video advertising department at PCC, I got a chance to create the highlight promotional video for this semester’s blood drive. This year’s would be extra tricky, since we had to be extra conscious of social distancing and other COVID mandates, and that we not show anything that would contradict the policies the college had set in place.

This year I wanted to go against the norm and make the blood drive look more “fun” than “inspirational.” In the past, the blood drive videos often had slow, thoughtful music with careful camera angles. Instead, I wanted to capitalize on any happiness I could scrounge up during this depressing COVID-y year, so I picked a happy song and focused on as much smiling and joy as possible.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OojvpTvHKXw&w=560&h=315]

Cover Design for Ben Wolf’s “Power Author”

JennethJanuary 29, 2021Book Covers, Design1 Comment

I designed this cover for Ben Wolf, author of Ghost Mine and the Blood Mercenaries series. This was my first time designing a nonfiction work, so my style had to adapt to accommodate for it. Instead of creating a scene or relying on a cinematic design, I wanted “writing book” to be the first message a potential buyer would get. That called for a light cover and the word “author” as big as I could get it. Ben also asked if I would include a book that had both science fiction and fantasy elements emerging from its pages.

I took color inspiration from Save the Cat!, one of the most notable writing books for fiction writers on the market. It features a bold orange that goes against cliché color pallets for writing books (like red and black). Instead of orange, I picked an equally-striking yellow, which led to the play off of “power” as gears, machines, and electricity.

You can purchase Power Author on Amazon.

End-Semester Book Cover Redesigns

JennethDecember 18, 2020Artwork, Book Covers, DesignLeave a Comment

This is the second half of my semester redesigns.

For our Conceptual Communications class we had to create weekly artwork based on a prompt. I decided to redesign well-known book covers based on each. Below are each of the three covers with their original photo references that I used to combine into a single image.

One of my goals for these projects is to create a professional book cover using entirely free resources from Pixabay, Dafont, and other online sites (with the obvious exception of Adobe, which sadly isn’t free). Below you can see each photo I used in each cover, and you can find every resource free online.

Mockup Cover Designs for RED Trilogy

JennethDecember 3, 2020Book Covers, Design, Layout Design, WritingLeave a Comment

Eighteen-year-old River Ardis lives in a future where terrorists infiltrate the country as teenagers. She tries her best to keep her head down and away from the unrest until she meets a distraught girl from the 1990s. But little do either of them know, the oppressive government has been hunting the time traveler for years—and anyone associated with her.

I began writing my time travel dystopian trilogy when I was fourteen, and it’s since undergone extensive edits for the past ten years. While I intend to pursue a traditional publishing house, which would be responsible for cover designs, I wanted to design my own cover and layout for a class project.

Christmas Lights 2020 (Pensacola Christian College)

JennethDecember 1, 2020Professional Videos, VideosLeave a Comment

Due to the pandemic, PCC couldn’t have their annual Christmas Lights celebration, so our video team was tasked to create a series of music videos similar to the Mary Did You Know music video I helped with several years ago.

I was able to help on the set of a number of these music videos as a PA, keeping track of each scene, helping set up and tear down equipment, prepping the set, and creating lights and effects during filming.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-9_ieykEWU&w=560&h=315]

The Genres of Red Riding Hood

JennethNovember 17, 2020Artwork, Book Covers, Design3 Comments

For my graduate Conceptual Communication class, I had to do a project that would depict the idea of “compare and contrast.” I decided to do a genre study and create a set of book covers that showed the classic story of Red Riding Hood in six of the biggest genres on the market.

Mid-Semester Book Cover Redesigns

JennethNovember 2, 2020Artwork, Book Covers, DesignLeave a Comment

Library Fantasy Posters

JennethOctober 20, 2020Artwork, Design2 Comments

I wanted to create a series of posters one might find in a local library for the class prompt “cause and effect.” Essentially, if you read amazing books, you travel to amazing places. I chose to illustrate three classic fantasy worlds in the form of travel posters: Neverland, Middle Earth, and Narnia. In addition, I wanted all three of them to be able to hang next to each other to create a continuous scene, with Aslan leading the way “further up and further in.” I also added a comet in the sky of the Neverland poster as a reference to the Disney prequel series I read as a kid.

You can check out my time lapse videos of the original artwork I did on Procreate via my YouTube channel.

Magic of the Real Kinetic Type Video

JennethSeptember 24, 2020Design, Professional Videos, Videos, Writing2 Comments

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVkyWKQu5F0&w=560&h=315]

Last summer I was able to attend the Realm Makers virtual conference, where author ND Wilson was the opening keynote speaker. His perspective on the fantasy genre and the Christian author’s role was game-changing to me, and it really left me with a new perspective on God’s creation and fantastic storytelling throughout history. Wilson believes that we live in “God’s fantasy novel,” in that, God’s creation and history is fantastic, and is the origin for all fantasy fiction (Marvel comics inspired by the Book of Judges, for example). In the original keynote, Wilson echoed some of JRR Tolkien’s and CS Lewis’s beliefs on the fantasy genre, and charged his audience to live in God’s novel as a character they would want to read about.

Since a lot of his points stuck with me and other conference attendees, I wanted to adapt his talk into a short video that explained his view on fantasy, informing them of a new and unique way to see God and storytelling.

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