The Girl with the Pretty Tattoos!

Hows that for a 'wall of text' cap?

So long as I'm in a capping mood, I'm just going to keep riding this wave.  With that in mind, I went over to the Haven to find someone to cap for.  My eyes first caught on Cortney.  I've made a few for her, but don't feel like I've ever done a really good one for her.  But when looking around I didn't find any image that gave me an idea for her.

Oddly enough, this image showed up when searching for 'Silly Sexy Girl'.

I don't know about silly, but it is certainly a sexy girl.  I just didn't feel it was right for Courtney.  But Dee.... yea, this would be right up her alley.  I had already planned on capping Dee, but I wanted it to be a little more 'outside' the box, or creative.

I began writing, figuring something would come up to spice up the design.  But as I wrote, I realized I was writing in my longer story format.  and Dee is more of a fan of the quick hit.  But the problem with the 'quick hit' style of capping is that the words are kept to a minimum.  And this layout just didn't work with that.  It would fit a nice wordy story great... but if I kept the sentences shorter, it would leave a ton of empty space.

After a few failed attempts, I just started writing a quick back and forth.  What came out was exactly what is in the cap.  But looking at it in word, then looking at the image.... well I just didn't think it would work.  On a lark, I copied the story into Photoshop, and tried to shoehorn it in.  I had to have a big font, but when it got big enough, I didn't have space.  I tried to select all the text to get a different size, but evidently missed, and only selected a couple words... so when I changed the font size they were huge compared to everything else.

Mm.. that immediately brought to mind the cap I made for the Haven Quarterly (and no... you still can't see it, unless you buy the eZine!).  It used a similar layout for the text.  So I spent the next hour or so putting the text in piece by piece.  Oddly enough after about 10 minutes I found that it was easier to fill in the text starting at the bottom, and then working my way back up.  That way I could place each part of the conversation in just the right way.

I'm fairly happy with this.  The story is a little... meh.  And the design isn't really anything to write home about... but when it all comes together, I think it works pretty good!