Top No-No in Cover Designs
Ok, someone please explain how i can buy this and then sleep. IF anyone’s taken a peek at the gallery or the sidebars, they’ll know that I’m crazy in love with digital art, photo manipulation and stock photography. Beyond Twilight and its gorgeous covers- which I really think is what started pushing publishers into recognizing the importance of good cover-art- we’ve had a lot of good, beautifully done covers coming in. Basically in the Paranormal genre, these covers give a real pick-me-up-now scream. But sometimes- some awful times- the cover designs are so terrible that I just had to post about what they should never be like! (okay, this is my personal opinion as a cover designer and artist. If you guys disagree with me…good! It means I’m eliciting a response. I’m a glass half full kind of person) 1) This Bloody Book: Yes, this seems to be the most popular choice with publishers right now. Seriously, I think I can recognize a book for being ab...