Need help with a cover

[R.R.Raymonds]

Hi guys, i am a really young and aspiring writer. i am really bad at drawing but i love writing to death! I am working on this really cool idea and i need to get a cover art for it.Please help me out here a bit i would be grateful to you!!

[Harmony-S-S]

if you want to team up with an artist post this in the collaboration section. However, if you want advice, I suggest using PosterMyWall for your cover. I use it all the time and let me tell you it is amazing! And yes, it is free.

[silverraven0]

Or you can download canvas and create one yourself. If you have some kind of image editing
app or program, you can look into Google for a cc images and add the texts. Or commission someone to do it.

[Okaishy]

I personally just take an image from Pexel and add some text on it with Canva!
I don't know if you really want something specific, but I don't think anyone will be willing to draw for you for free

[Zaboem]

These are all great suggestions, but the best answer sort of does depend on the story.

I have this method is to grab an image from NASA's astronomy picture of the day page. A lot of these images are copyright free. Then I throw a title over it using MS Paint and a fun font from Blambot or a 3D font using the fontwork function in OpenOffice Writer, and maybe a simple illustration. I might call this the Bob Ross method for sci-fi book covers, a way of making images which looks much harder and more time consuming than it is. I've been pleased with my results, but I write space opera in which this trick fits well. This wouldn't fit at all for most stories.

If in doubt, ask an artist for help.

[darthmongoose]

I'm more of an illustrator than a designer, but I have worked on this kind of thing in the past. Here are my tips for getting something decent:

The zero budget option: Find a nice Royalty Free or CC0 stock image. My favourite place for these is https://unsplash.com/
Download something like GIMP (a free alternative to Photoshop) so that you can crop it to the correct size. Download a decent font from google fonts, here are some solid options: https://fonts.google.com/featured/Five+Fresh+Headline+and+Body+Text+Pairings
A dark stock photo with white text over it is usually a solid option.

If you have the budget to work with an artist and commission them, do it. Artists generally get more expensive based on experience and skill, so you'll need to look around a bit and ask politely about prices, but there are loads of good artists out there with affordable rates.

[R.R.Raymonds]

Thank You so much guys! you helped me a lot. i am going to look into as you said and see if i can find anything! thank you so much for helping me out!!!