Season 6 of The Kelly Clarkson Show just got better. For fans who love the talk show host and her famous Kellyoke, this season is going to be perfect for you. It is starting with Kelly’s in-house band, Y’all, and her performing a two-day concert. The concert will take place on the 30 Rock rooftop and will help reign in the show’s sixth season. Kellyoke Strikes Again EW shared that “the festival will see Clarkson speak with a medley of actors, musicians, and ‘rad humans’ — everyday people making a difference within their communities — on its larger and, thankfully, covered stage.” The showrunner Alex Duda spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the importance of Kellyoke for the show. He said, “Maybe the Kellyoke is the siren tone that brings up people from New York. And then we have a group party – the last party of the summer and the first party of the fall.” The show has had surprise appearances from Jimmy Fallon, Jared Leto, Chris Pratt, and more. Part of everyone wanting to get involved is due to Kelly’s incredible personality. Duda described the show as, “This is Kelly herself. It’s unbridled joy, positivity, it’s music, it’s humor, it’s heart, it’s all of those things together and just in a very real way.” EW perfectly described The Kelly Clarkson Show by saying that it is a “mix of buzzy celebrity interviews, human interest stories, and Clarkson’s celebrated Kellyoke covers.” The show has admitted that Season 6 will be giving those beloved Kellyoke covers more air time. Kelly Clarkson’s Loveable Nature The Kelly Clarkson Show wouldn’t be so successful without the incredible hostess. Her personality is radiant and it shines through the screen to all of us who watch her. Her showrunner admitted that “Clarkson’s authenticity was one of the first things” that caught his eye. He said, “She’s exactly who you think she is.” Not only is Kelly Clarkson a loveable personality, but she also controls a large part of the show as well. She is an executive producer for the series and also gets the final say in the Kellyoke picks. The only thing that a song has to have to make the cut is that she has to be able to connect to the song emotionally. As long as she feels a connection to the song, Kelly Clarkson will sing just about anything on Kellyoke. EW shared that “the process of selecting, arranging, preparing, and performing Kellyoke songs has changed over the last 800+ performances on the show.” While the show used to take requests from fans, it has not evolved to taking requests from staff and fellow celebrities during commercial breaks. Fans of The Kelly Clarkson Show and of Kellyoke are also being promised more duets this season. Furthermore, “Duda hopes the season will continue to build upon its mission of blending songs and stories together.” We cannot wait to see what Season 6 of The Kelly Clarkson Show has in store for us. The source of the featured image is here. The post “The Kelly Clarkson Show” Just Announced Great News For Kellyoke Fans appeared first on InspireMore.

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Books Creating Visual Passion: Behind the Scenes of the Swordcrossed Cover Even from the early sketches, you can feel the sexual tension… By Christine Foltzer | Published on September 24, 2024 Art by Cynthia Shepphard Comment 0 Share New Share Art by Cynthia Shepphard Not everyone knows that I started my career in book design on romance covers. It was the bulk of my work for the eight years that I worked at Grand Central Publishing. While my own reading tastes normally lean elsewhere, working on books with paranormal passion, historical hunks, and luscious costuming during my formative baby designer years—let’s just say it left a mark on my soul. So, when I was told we were working on a queer, enemies to lovers, romantasy that was going to get all the bells and whistles, I was excited!   Looking for an artist for Swordcrossed, I wanted to find someone who would not only capture the desire and heat but also the luxurious fabrics, patterns and details this story exudes. Cynthia Shepphard was the right person for this job. Her work is classical in a timeless sort of way, while still clearly being fantasy. She has a way of capturing body language that makes you feel in the moment with the characters. I reached out to her with the project proposal and the first line of her response read “Omg YES this sounds amazing!!” Buy the Book Swordcrossed Freya Marske Buy Book Swordcrossed Freya Marske Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget Thus, the cover assignment began. I gathered up all of the relevant information. This included the amazing amount of visual resources Freya had provided for us, including costuming, patterns, setting, textiles, dueling poses, and character references. A few weeks later I got the sketches in. *Insert screams of delight and Muppet flailing!* … I mean *ahem professional word of enthusiasm*… Art by Cynthia Shepphard Even from these early line drawings you can feel the sexual tension. We have caught them in the moment that combat turned into passion.Cynthia on creating these compositions—“One of the more interesting challenges early on was trying to get a balance between the fighting and the romance in the swordplay. If you’re that close to your opponent in an actual rapier fight, someone has lost the fight, or maybe one person has grappled the other, which can look awkward when done correctly—I worked with someone who trains with swords to act out how that might go. Even the way a rapier is supposed to be held, with one finger above the quillon looks kinda “wrong” to the untrained eye, so it ended up feeling more appropriate to make this an intimate moment between their rounds of sparring, rather than pretend they ended up locked together like this somehow during a fight.” I later found out this project also inspired Cynthia to purchase her own prop sword in order to get posing as accurate as possible. “Because it came with a free engraving, I had the words “It’s for Reference” emblazoned on the blade.” Photo: Cynthia Shepphard After we stopped shrieking from how amazing these sketches were, we got down to the difficult business of picking one to go to final. In the end we didn’t just pick one. We decide that we wanted to combine elements from several of them to make the perfect cover. The way the swords intersected from one, the tilt of the head from another, the flowing fabrics, and the hint of architecture from a third. Cynthia took our feedback and then sent us over more refined sketches, with various color options. Art by Cynthia Shepphard We went through this process of refining and polishing a few more times. We wanted to make sure the steel was sharp, the heat high and the thirst yearning. And Cynthia brought it! This art has us all thirsty! Art by Cynthia Shepphard From there I had a the magnificently challenging task of designing typography to match this gorgeous cover art. I tried several different designs, and debated which effects would allow this cover to truly sing. Foil, embossing, spot gloss, stained edges, and patterned end papers; this novel has it all! It was truly an honor to work on this cover. A huge thanks to Cynthia and everyone involved![end-mark] Cover art by Cynthia Shepphard; Design by Christine Foltzer Design by Christine Foltzer The post Creating Visual Passion: Behind the Scenes of the <i>Swordcrossed</i> Cover appeared first on Reactor.