It's a nice picture, but this sure as hell won't cut it as a book cover. Especially if you mostly upload your chapters online.
Try to adjust the size to match the size of all the stories appearing on the front page, and then see what remains. You can neither read the title nor can you even recognize the scene. It's all just a white blur.
Whoever created this for you may have taken your request into consideration, but has certainly never created covers for webnovel authors who publish online. It doesn't work as it doesn't draw in new viewers. It's perfect for people who are taking a good look at it, so your current readers will probably really like it.
This might work on an actual book cover if you have the book right in front of you, but online? No way.
Of course, that is just my personal opinion. As I said, the art itself is nice, and it seems to fit your request perfectly, but I don't see anyone clicking on that white blur if they spot it on the front page.
Maybe you do not care about publishing online or the number of readers and just want your exact, detailed vision brought to life. Maybe you are aiming for physical releases. If that's the case, then it's of course no problem at all, and all my points are moot.
You're not wrong. I can also see what you mean regarding the font size. As for the whole online publishing part, well, it's a bit of a mixed bag to be honest. I kinda care, but at the same time, not that much. If I truly cared, I might have gone for a whole other cover, something that would definitely draw in views. At the same time, I don't really think my writing is deserving of that much attention, so yeah. I think as it is, the cover somewhat reflects my own story and thoughts towards it, as odd as that may sound.
As for physical release, it would be nice to have one, preferably when I finish the story, but that's unlikely to happen.
Well, I'm far from an artist, or graphic designer, so I can't rightly critique the artwork itself beyond simply saying that I believe it is quite exceptional, and nothing following is in any way a reflection on the quality of the artwork presented.
What doesn't sit right with me (from a cover-design standpoint), is that the title and the cover art really don't blend well. I just can't see how the artwork itself has anything to do with the title (Unless of course, magical girls can transform into cars... which could certainly make for an interesting story premise).
As for what's missing, the Author's name isn't anywhere to be found on the cover there, so that'd be a minor drawback there.
The color choice for the font too, could probably be better, since the white blends too much into the background in some areas. (Even adding a bit of a drop-shadow onto the text could help mitigate that by creating some extra contrast for the white lettering to make it pop more).
Probably. I did ask the artist to include my name, rather, pen name, and even include their name or handle as the artist. I wasn't and am still not overly concerned with how it looks. If I need too, I can go back and change it, if need be, for now, it isn't really a concern. As for the font itself, maybe a black or red outline might help it pop out more? That and maybe increasing the size of the font, like a previous poster said.
And the image is supposed to be a scene from the start of the story, like, literally, it's the opening scene in the story. The idea was, if they read it, they'd be able to go, oh hey! That's the opening! And sure, it may not draw viewers, but it might help get viewers to stick around.
I like the composition, but I think the environment is too bright. We can see the moon in the sky and the car's headlight beams, but everything looks like daytime. At least, that's what I first thought of when mentioning "something wrong" (subjectively).
Perhaps darkening the whole thing except the tops of the mountains, the reflection on the car, and what's directly in the light beams would give it the extra sense of depth?
I'd be interested in seeing how something like that would look. How exactly would you go about darkening it? Or where would you think a good place to start would be?
I like the top part but hell if I know what's going on at the bottom. There's a bit problem with perspective I think. But I too love the water color effect and the color pallet.
Yeah, I really wanted a painted, or water-color effect but I wasn't exactly sure how it would turn out. Moon did a great job with it. As for the perspective, it's supposed to be a bit off, at least, when I thought up the idea, I thought it would be a bit off, so it's kind of hard to judge if it's a good kind of off, or a bad kind of off. The idea was to lend more on the abstract side of the spectrum, so yeah.
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Now, overall, I'm glad to see so many people engaging! And I do enjoy hearing your insight!
Thanks for the kind words ^^ it was very nice to work with you as well.
I also think as a suggestion for the profile picture...well it depends on what you want. But I would suggest something that connects to your username.
No worries, I told you I'd make a post here, just took a bit since a lot has happened recently.
And what would that look like, in your opinion? Something that would reflect my username?
