Give me your thought which Art Style I should use

[Daeron]

Hi, I tried to create art work for my future chapter.
Please give me your thought which style I should use?

Minimalist :

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Full Detailed

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[Rachel_Leia_Cole]

I like the layout of the minimalist one. That’s what I voted. But both are very good!

 

[Daeron]

I like the layout of the minimalist one. That’s what I voted. But both are very good!

Thank you, the minimalist more eye catching?

 

[Rachel_Leia_Cole]

Thank you, the minimalist more eye catching?

To me it is. The negative space is doing a lot of work there. It leads the eye to the title then the characters.

 

[Robert.Hillmyre]

the minimalist design will pop more as a thumbnail on mobile screens, while the detailed art will look stunning as an interior illustration

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

the minimalist design will pop more as a thumbnail on mobile screens, while the detailed art will look stunning as an interior illustration

this

 

[L1aei]

Yep, I'm for the first one as well. Not sure why I am, but it catches my eye more than the second. Maybe it is because the second is darker and I'm viewing this on Dark Mode?

 

[Feudyn]

Please give me your thought which style I should use?

I honestly think that the detailed one is better, but I can see the minimalistic style being used in certain chapters "suddenly" to catch the reader off-guard, possibly even making them ask questions like:
I wonder why all of a sudden this chapter feels different. Is something in the plot coming up?

 

[Daeron]

I honestly think that the detailed one is better, but I can see the minimalistic style being used in certain chapters "suddenly" to catch the reader off-guard, possibly even making them ask questions like:
I wonder why all of a sudden this chapter feels different. Is something in the plot coming up?

Ah, interesting. It can be used as a pivot yes? I never thought about this.

 

[Feudyn]

Ah, interesting. It can be used as a pivot yes? I never thought about this.

absolutely :)

How often to use it I cannot say, so your mileage may vary haha

 

[Nolff]

the minimalist design will pop more as a thumbnail on mobile screens, while the detailed art will look stunning as an interior illustration

@Daeron

I'm voting for this.

While yes, the second one is good, the minimalist art gives the two characters and the title the focus they need, as there is not much to look at except for the symbolic-like dice. The second one, I prefer as an illustration rather than a book cover. A book cover, I will say, will require something that should relate to the story, in one way or another. Sometimes, it's just preference. But, if you want to have a book cover, it should have a meaning to it and should correlate to the story, no matter how utterly unimportant it is to the actual plot.

 

[FRWriter]

Am I just blind, or does the "simpler" variant look much cleaner and NOT less detailed? 100% the first one.

 

[Daeron]

absolutely :)

How often to use it I cannot say, so your mileage may vary haha

@Daeron

I'm voting for this.

While yes, the second one is good, the minimalist art gives the two characters and the title the focus they need, as there is not much to look at except for the symbolic-like dice. The second one, I prefer as an illustration rather than a book cover. A book cover, I will say, will require something that should relate to the story, in one way or another. Sometimes, it's just preference. But, if you want to have a book cover, it should have a meaning to it and should correlate to the story, no matter how utterly unimportant it is to the actual plot.

Am I just blind, or does the "simpler" variant look much cleaner and NOT less detailed? 100% the first one.

Thank you, for your input!

I already try create some more minimalist style art for past few days, and using some photoshop edit for the chapter's title.
Also, thank you for Feudyn idea about create more "detailed" one for the pivot point.

Here's some of the samples i create for past few days.

 

[L1aei]

Thank you, for your input!

I already try create some more minimalist style art for past few days, and using some photoshop edit for the chapter's title.
Also, thank you for Feudyn idea about create more "detailed" one for the pivot point.

Here's some of the samples i create for past few days.

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Those are really good. It's not just the quality either, but the expressions that fit with the titles. Like, you can see how their faces are genuine conversions of the cover titles over their heads. In the high school one, their faces have this tentative, almost commonly cinematic warmth any loving couple would feel in their youths, like this is their mid-origin story in life. There's still that optimism, you know? That softness like it is the beginning of something wonderful.

Then you got karma rearing its ugly head at the next couple and you can see that in their body language; it's shifted in a looser... maybe too loose of postures. What I mean is that she's leaning in, but her gaze has this complicated sort of weird weight to it, like she's seen some shit but it's earned in some way, so... I guess you could call that a look of acceptance? I think that defines her well enough, and the fella is just laid back and open, like he's done and over with defending himself and will take on anything else life has to offer him; thankfully, that's the girl relying on him to support her at the moment.

And then we get this miles away bit where they are physically close in presentation but you can tell that it isn't the case emotionally. Like that negative space between their heads, them facing away? That's pretty damn telling over what's going on there even without knowing the full story.

Really cool.

 

[Daeron]

Those are really good. It's not just the quality either, but the expressions that fit with the titles. Like, you can see how their faces are genuine conversions of the cover titles over their heads. In the high school one, their faces have this tentative, almost commonly cinematic warmth any loving couple would feel in their youths, like this is their mid-origin story in life. There's still that optimism, you know? That softness like it is the beginning of something wonderful.

Then you got karma rearing its ugly head at the next couple and you can see that in their body language; it's shifted in a looser... maybe too loose of postures. What I mean is that she's leaning in, but her gaze has this complicated sort of weird weight to it, like she's seen some shit but it's earned in some way, so... I guess you could call that a look of acceptance? I think that defines her well enough, and the fella is just laid back and open, like he's done and over with defending himself and will take on anything else life has to offer him; thankfully, that's the girl relying on him to support her at the moment.

And then we get this miles away bit where they are physically close in presentation but you can tell that it isn't the case emotionally. Like that negative space between their heads, them facing away? That's pretty damn telling over what's going on there even without knowing the full story.

Really cool.

Whoa, you really guess it completely spot on regarding first and third image! Thank you, that means my message delivered.

For second image, you literally guess the general idea!
it is about the man using the girl for his own pleasure to distract him from heartbroken. Then, he made the girl broken and he get bored with her.

That's impressive guess!

 

[L1aei]

Whoa, you really guess it completely spot on regarding first and third image! Thank you, that means my message delivered.

For second image, you literally guess the general idea!
it is about the man using the girl for his own pleasure to distract him from heartbroken. Then, he made the girl broken and he get bored with her.

That's impressive guess!

That's just my overactive imagination.

 

[Nolff]

Thank you, for your input!

I already try create some more minimalist style art for past few days, and using some photoshop edit for the chapter's title.
Also, thank you for Feudyn idea about create more "detailed" one for the pivot point.

Here's some of the samples i create for past few days.

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It's fucking better, ngl. I swear the title and the characters are what I remember from this cover now.