Art Based On Novels - Good or Bad?

@Aloredd Aloredd
Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:57:55 +0000

@Aloredd wrote:

Some of my favorite novels have pictures every few chapters detailing the more important scenes and the artist always (at least in my favorite series) makes the main characters vague. One of the images, for example, is the good guy shooting the bad guy while the girls watches (a western, if anyone's curious...the bad guy had tried kidnapping the girl and the good guy chased them down) The girl is detailed pretty well but the bad guy is facedown on the ground dead so you can't see his face and the good guy's face was covered by his hat (the image was angled slightly over the good guy's shoulder so you saw more of his back than anything). I like having the images in the books but usually do come up with my own mental image of the characters so having them (the images) purposefully vague around the characters' faces (be it from shadows, clothing, their arm/pose or other methods) is an idea if you're afraid of spoiling your readers' depictions of the characters

EDIT: after rereading you post i realize this wasn't quite what you were asking about....