Advice for thumbnails

[chrisylart]

Hello friends !
I am fairly new about webcomics, tapas, and webtoon. I've read many many interesting threads about how to "attract" new readers and one of them was having a great thumbnail. But I am not sure what's really a great thumbnail. I've been through a lot of them and usually, I see that it is colourful, has one or two characters, windy hair (XD) or "badass" pose, or kissing or upside down characters.
So I was wondering if you guys could tell me my thumbnail seems fine (it's for a fantasy/romance webcomic) and if you could show me yours and tell me what you chose that thumbnail specifically.
Thanks a lot !
PS: Super sorry about my English, not a native speaker....

So this is the main character of my webcomic and that's pretty much it XD I JK, also I blurred the background because previously, it was a very detailed background and it seemed kinda hard to see her. That's the only very significant decision I made.

[Kelheor]

Hello! Your English is great, don't apologise for it, okay? =)
Overall it looks fine. I love how cool the hair look - it's very vivid and bright, so it's easy to find her among other thumbnails. Maybe put her in the middle of the picture and make her bigger? Now she is only taking a 60% and a lot of blurry background is not looking good even from far away. Judging from your userpic I would prefer it better, than a bunch of blur. Just look at Webtoons front page comics - they all are pretty sharp.
I, personally, would also make the contrast of colours greater: even though the picture is vivid, everything looks a little bland now and greater contrast will help it to stand out more =)

[nostalgicroxas]

I agree with the adjustment about contrast. Shadows need to be a bit darker for the rest to pop.
Please don't mind my quick adjustment. I just did a tweak with Levels.

I did notice that the forums is automatically making it wider, so it looks blurry but the 100% version that I copied from your post looks pretty sharp in my program so I don't think you need to sharpen it ^_^

[chrisylart]

Thank you @Kelheor ! Thank you very much ! I checked again and it's true, there are a lot of sharp thumbnails ! i was afraid it'd be too "crowded" somehow. Great thumbnail for your webtoon by the way

And you too @nostalgicroxas thanks a lot for adjusting it ! I can really see the difference actually now with the contrast !!

[Kelheor]

Thanks so much! And good luck to you!~