He got injured on job, I stopped working to nurse him (poor him) and during his recovery I revisited my earlier passion for writing and creating books covers.
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We had 401 k plans, company paid rental cars, free trips to Europe etc. Hubby and I were graphic artists for an international mu ltimedia fortune 500 company that specialized in branded marketing.in 100s of buildings located across the nations. When I asked him if he even knew where the fight was taking place yet - he was like "nope, let's put it in a keep, think medieval" Like with the two mage's fighting as I was doing the work I realized I didn't have a location for the fight so didn't know where to put my fighters. Beings the story isn't written yet we run into some funny snags. He does insist on "colorful, interesting text" but it is fun to turn his loose descriptions into covers. So now he sends me loose descriptions of what should be on the cover and then writes the cover into the story. I used to read the 1st couple chapters before doing the cover but the author writes so fast that he has started putting pre orders up before the next book is even written. I already posted the 1st one, but I have two more done for it now.
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Here is the series I am currently working on. The art is taking too much center stage, when it's really both art and text that sell the book. If you overlay a thirds grid you can see the text is well out of bounds to make a good balance.
Give the text a little more breathing room.Īlthough it can be a mechanical contrivance, and can make for cookie-cutter covers, the rule-of-thirds can be used to help judge placement of graphic and text elements. Even if these are ebook covers, the image can get cropped in thumbnails and cover images on Amazon and B&N. There are also mechanical considerations from things like trim and bleed. This causes an inbalance because there's such a void in the center of the cover.
On many of your covers the title and/or author name are pushed to the very top and bottom. :) Covers link to the original art in my gallery. BTW the Trolls one was not accepted by the gatekeeper at the book cover designer. Finally got around to converting some of my recent artwork into book covers.