Hello! I'm a new writer on Tapas who has about 10 years of writing elsewhere. I'm looking for an artist to collab with to make my novel cover and possibly a thumbnail or an illustration of a scene in the novel.
The novel is titled "The Enemy in His Bed", a romance taking place in an urban setting where everyone is technically either a spy or an assassin or a mob boss, and they are all trying to find the son of a mob boss. However, the leader of that assassin group had no idea that said son of the mob boss is secretly dating his little brother. The genre is somewhere in the crime, comedy, and mystery realm, with some romance, obviously. It is also a work that was popular on another platform, although back then it was a fanfic.
Don't be mistaken! The story is NSFW, but I would like the cover to be SFW. Here are some of the things I'm looking for:
- cartoon or webtoon (Korean) style of illustration (perhaps manga/Japanese style)
- Minimalistic color palette
- the main concept of the cover is two people under the covers of a bed, but possibly not showing their face nor most of their bodies, just some limbs, but it should be posed somewhat like the characters are sleeping soundly. It should be somewhat cute, not overly 'sexy'
- I might also ask for an illustration of the characters headshot for a thumbnail/novel illustration
While this project is paid, this novel is still running under no contract. I'm not paid for this work yet (perhaps never will), so I will be paying you out of my own money. I do plan to change the cover every once in a while and have new illustrations here and there, either with new artists or perhaps with the same one.
If you're interested, please link me to your portfolio (or simply post some of your works) and maybe link me to your pricelist page. Thank you!
(I will be keeping this thread open for a few weeks to gather enough candidates for current and future projects.)