Whoever you are, this is my book cover (Cue choirs singing hallelujah).
Isn’t it grand, and all the adjectives synonymous
to great? LOL, kidding aside, I made this because just so you know I’m an
artist before I was a writer. Like I said from the post preceeding this, I once
wrote storyline of my anime series in my head—that means I need to have actual
drawings of my characters.
The cover is not the only picture
in the book, every chapter has one (Chapter art, not a particular scene in the
book). This actually a scene in a war where my protagonist—bleep—the landscape with—bleep—and
the raw power of—bleep. It’s a
mixture of water color and color pencil, but the background I did using PS5
because I was too lazy to draw the damn thing by hand.
If you’re going indie writer, I suggest
don’t do your cover by yourself. I did myself because I practically sneered my
eyes with all beautiful covers that uses font effectively for a week (don’t use
2 fonts—a sin in doing a cover); and it also hard to translate what is inside
the book to an artwork, it’s so hard it’s criminal. You have to have many trial
and errors, and most of all, trust your gut or any guts who knows a good cover
when they see one.
The heck, I have no idea if my cover is actually grand and all
synonymous to great, I just trusted my gut that it’s ready and just toss the
dice and hope it’ll be seven.
Anyway, I’m crossing my fingers
and toes it’ll lure readers when I publish it on Amazon this Sunday.
Thanks for reading whoever you
are. Till the next post.
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