Any of you decided update your cover/thumbnail for your comic/novel? Tell me why and show off your art!

[smokesalty]

So, I finally decided to make a proper thumbnail for my comic instead of using a cropped version of my original cover. It's mainly cos my painting style doesn't lend itself well to small thumbnails, especially with the darker lighting I used.

(Not to mention, the uncropped cover is almost a fullbody so the face isn't gonna be as detailed)

I mainly did this for webtoon, since the audience there would likely be drawn to the new thumbnail style tbh And they use thumbnails as the first impressions, rather than covers like here on tapas.

Old:

New:

Very happy with it!

Have any of you done something like this? Share your art below!

[faisalhussein394]

I wish I could show you the high resolution of this old cover but my hard drive got corrupted and lost it so here is the old in bad quality compare to the new one:
Old:

New:

The reason for changing it is obviously the logo color and how the words are organized. I also want to change it completely because it looks more like a panel from a page than a cover.

[Llyrel]

Aaaah, Webtoon thumbnails, a mystery I still can't figure out

I changed my thumbnail multiple times on there. At first it was just a cropped version of my original cover:

...Which, truth to be told, was never actually supposed to be a "cover" to begin with XD it was just an illustration of Adrian I did a couple of years ago. It DID represent a scene that was going to be in the comic, though, so I went with that.

The results were... decent, but at some point I started to suspect that the whole thing was too dark/creepy for the Webtoon audience. So I decided to crop it in a way that wouldn't show the creepy glowing eyes:

Worked pretty well for a few months, but then again, at some point I felt like it stopped attracting new readers. Tried to study the other WT thumbnails a bit to see what could be done. Most WT thumbnails seem to have a focus either on faces or couples. I don't have any couples in my comic yet and I won't have any for a long time, so I decided to go with a face.

This time I picked Jorn, because I felt he was looking good enough to hopefully attract some audience

...But alas, he's not the actual protagonist of the comic, and I'm afraid most new readers realized that rather quickly, because after a small influx of new followers, people stopped coming XD

Soooo... I decided to go back to Adrian. Again, didn't have a proper "thumbnail", so I decided to go with a panel from my comic:

I wanted something that could: a. show off my style; b. show my main character in all his grumpy glory and c. hopefully give a hint that the story was a mystery (as in "what is he staring at? :O")
Seems to be working decently so far and even got me a spot in the Canvas Top 30 Horror comics just yesterday

I miiiiight decide to change it again in the future to reflect my recent style changes/add more clarity (a lot of the details get lost in the actual app ) and possibly include some new hints about the story, but for now I'm letting it stay

[bulgariansumo]

Old:

This cover didn't match my current art quality, some of the character designs and expressions were off, and there's a character who shouldn't be there.

New:

I probably still need to redesign the logo at some point, but otherwise, I really like this.

Bonus:

This one's the Tapas-exclusive version because Tapas requires some weird exact image dimensions.

I also have different covers and thumbnails for each (multi-chapter) episode. I will put the thumbnails under a spoiler.

Summary

(I'm not sure what's going on here. The spoiler works in the preview)

[Learasc]

My first cover was this one:

Which was a cropped version of this one:

For the cropped version I just repainted some of the face, as it wasn't really detailed in the full body version. I did this cover in the very beginning of drawing my comic. After a while I noticed that the artstyle in my comic is different than the cover, so I made a new one:

For this cover I asked on the webtoon creators discord for some feedback and tips. The results from that were that I should make my cover very clear and easy to read. I was kinda happy with it until recently. Soo I redid the cover again:

I think this one represents my comic artstyle the best.

But that were all just my Webtoon covers. My Tapas cover didn't change since the beginning and I still like it the most:

I think it's good for the kind of "official" looking cover that's okay here on Tapas. But sadly I don't think I could use it for webtoon because of the many details and because it looks too "polished" in comparison to my comic's artstyle.

[powerplantanimations]

I haven't updated mine yet, but when I may use yours as reference lmao. Especially since I'm switching artstyles for Naota.

[rajillustration]

Hey new thumbnail looks good--I agree that when shrinking stuff down, it's easier to get a crisper look with lineart than painterly. Had the same realization myself when it came to my tiny thumbnails over on other platforms.

Yeah I change my cover every 4-5 months. Just trying to figure out what sticks, but also the vibe of my comic changes over time. Comics move so slowly, that while my overall comic is a fantasy/mystery/drama, it will go into these much cuter romcom arcs. So I try to make the cover match what we're doing right now.

so this is first cover --drama arc

second cover -- romcom arc

third cover -- fantasy/mystery/magic arc

No idea if this is the best strategy, since I don't want to mislead my audience or anything, but like...my comic isn't just one genre all the time, so this is what I feel I have to do to get engaged readers right now.

[ccmatta]

I loved your thumbnail, your art looks amazing, both of them, but the new one is * chef kiss* incredible

I change it from time to time because I get bored xD I think in 2 1/2 years I had 4 covers if I'm not mistaken. And I'm already bored of my current one (since the day 1 I'm not sure of the current one, but I used it anyway).

In order:

[XiuLyn_12]

I redrew my comic cover, but I'm too lazy to change it cuz the story is almost end.

[Enthriex]

It's not that I didn't like the old cover but I wanted to make something with a little more emotion perhaps haha

Old:

New:

There are many more important elements shown here and some important details that can be understood with story context haha

[EncryptedWriting]

This post was made for me, for real!! It's really late so I won't post em all bur I've been commissioning an artist to make sketches of my novel chapter thumbnails. I then line art and color. Here's some on my phone. Hope this makes sense as it's almost 3am and I'm effy.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

My very first cover (of the version which is now deleted)
It has whimsical vibe.

My current one
Many mistakes it for horror because of the cover (it is not), but the cover encapsulates what is happening in the story.

I made various versions of cover too.
The black ones are older.

[Esran_Art]

Ah! It's always cool to see the thought process behind folks' covers, yours look very cool!

When I was trying to figure out what I wanted as my cover image, I originally took a look at what the highly viewed comics did and then decided to do both something that mimicked the style and something that looked completely different haha - so when I started I had this:

It shows my two main characters in a look that goes for more of a cyberpunk vibe. Then as I went on and introduced a few more characters, I tried out my other cover:

I think I want to whip up a new on in another month or so! I think rotating out art is cool because you can grab different eyes with different things

[KUUPID]

I changed my novel's covers three times XD Every cover represents each season's focus on the MCs' relationship!

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I'm not an artist (nor can I draw very well v.v), so I commissioned my covers from artists on Tapas and fiverr

Season 1:

Season 2:

Season 3:

[DreamyPastel]

Every time I think too much about the cover I change it...and I've been thinking a lot about it recently so I just finished a new one lol.

But my comic originally had this cover (August 2020):

Then this one (May 2021):

And again changed it again (December 2021):

And the one I just finished today! (August 2022):

I think cause my style subtley changed during each chapter I was tempted to change the cover to reflect that, so pretty much sometime in the middle of each chapter I change it haha. I will not be surprised if I update it again within the year but I am happy with the recent one I made!

[system]

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