r/BookCovers

oc by @alekspunk12 drew this on penup app using 4 layers pen+airbrush tools in 5 hs

Hello, I was wondering if I could hire someone to create a cover for me for my gothic fiction novel. I have included some images that are in my genre. I would like something similar and the main character is 15 year old girl who is unilived by aristocrats and comes back as a girl made of forest things and gets vengeance. Her teeth are made of rose thorns and flowers push up her throat and out her mouth when she screams.

It is gothic with botanical horror. My budget is $200. I would need to use the cover for the ebook, print, and hard cover... i would also share the image in my ads for the book. Please let me know if you can help.

EDIT: Budget is flexible especially if you let me make payments (I would not expect to receive the final product until i have paid off my bill in full)

About two months ago I made a post of this sub, looking for an illustrator/designer to work with in refining my book cover. My previous work felt unrefined and didn't capture the book concepts as I'd intended. That's when I took a chance at Basu Saha who goes by u/basusaha_ , a passionate designer who was candid and supportive from the start.

He was keen, asked the right questions and I immediately knew I had found the right person to work with. His passion mirrored mine. He didn't intend to mimic most designs, but build from the confluence of our ideas.

So we got to work and in a month we designed the covers for the e-book, paperback and Hardcover versions of the book. It all paid of.

Even though my shitty camera can't do the book feel and colors any justice, it's all I could have hoped for.

To anyone looking for a Book Cover Designer/Illustrator to work with, you won't be disappointed by Basu Saha. I share this not because he asked me, or anything but as a way to share a talent I trust.

I trust he will comment down below. Thanks to this community for making such stories come to life

I'd love some feedback on whether you feel this cover is doing its job, please. The story centres around a civilisation that worships an artificial sun without fully understanding what it actually is, so I’ve tried to make the cover feel ancient, ritualistic and technologically strange. It's definitely not space opera.

Does it read as speculative/literary science fiction? Is anything too distracting? Does the tagline feel intrusive or unnecessary? Would appreciate your thoughts.

(This is a personal project just for some fun and sharpening my skills. It's in the very final stages so it'll just be minor tweaks from here.)

Thanks.

You can find more of my works down in the comments.

I made this cover recently and can't quite point my finger on what genre it fits best (It's not for a novel I wrote, it's a premade I was playing around with and intend to sell). Maybe thriller or horror romance? What do other people get from seeing it?

General feedback and what you immediately think of when seeing this cover is very appreciated!

Artwork by me. Im a little paranoid, sorry for the anti-theft text haha….

Hey authors and publishers! I have a couple of immediate openings for book cover design. I have one with a delivery this month and one for next month. I do full cover typography layout, illustration, as well as supplementary elements like 3D mockups, adverts, and imprint logo design. My covers are usually in the 2k-3k range, which includes multiple formats, concepts, and marketing materials.

Please contact me by email on my website: https://www.candicebroersma.com

Commission me by KOFI/VGEN:
KOFI
VGen

ArtStation - Pandor Virus

I made a book cover for a client, an Eldritch horror theme! Hope you guys like it!

I was out having my morning smoke outside the hotel this morning and looked in front of me at the foggy path through the trees and thought, “This would make an excellent cover for my book.”

Took the photo myself and added the title and author name with the iPhone editing tools. Looking for any feedback you all might like to offer.

The book is a supernatural horror/thriller, kind of an old-fashioned ghost story with a modern twist.

Hello everyone. Do you have any constructive feedback for this book cover?

I am getting ready to self-publish a solo roleplaying gamebook set in Irish myth & folklore, "Tests of the Fíanna*"* (Fíanna is an Irish word that means 'warband', pronounced "FEE'an'ah"). "The Fíanna is a specific warband from Irish myth. The scene on the cover is one of the tests to join this warband. I'm generally happy with this cover but I am struggling esp. with the text at the bottom. I want a full sized image and to show the fellow running/leaping over a log, which is part of my struggle re. the cover. I've also added the back cover though I am more happy with this one.

Note: I commissioned an artist to create the illustration for the cover so this is a must have for me.

Here's some context in case in matters: Tests of the Fíanna (IE-00) is a scripted solitaire adventure gamebook. The setting is ancient Ireland with its mythic creatures and folklore, esp. the stories of the Fíanna Cycle. It is compatible with the role playing game Tunnels & Trolls. This adventure is part of the Inis Ealga series of gamebooks (2 exist (IE-01, IE-02), another in development (IE-03)).

Thanks very much and have a wonderful day.

- Martin

For all those who are artists, these will look very very bad, but first I am not an artist and second I dont have budget to hire one, keep this in mind. I am making these things myself, from little things that I know about design.

And the genre is thriller Mystery genre.

**** if you have like simple advice and instructions to make the cover better, kindly dont hesitate, and don't talk sh*t, even if you don't like it, sorry 😐 to say it like this, because I found some people on reddit which really talk like they are so superior on all the others. Even if you have experience in such things, don't disrespect others for what they dont know in your field.

Sorry again.

Kindly help me with a good cover.

I have been absolutely loving the book covers that Leigh Bardugo has been using for the last few years, what would you call this style? Each animal has something to do with the actual book, but in a "if you know you know" kind of way. Love the massive typography and how lowkey creepy they are. Would you consider this an illustration or a mix of media? Is there a specific niche of creators that specializes in this?