Offering Book Cover Assistance

[VibrantFox]

Like the title says, I'm offering to try to share tips, critiques and editing assistance with book covers on Tapas. I'm also hoping other people chime in but I'll do what I can. I'm not an expert but I've been an comic artist here on Tapas for a while and I've got at least a little graphic design experience.

So to start these are some resources provided by Tapas themselves giving some basic pointers, tips and other useful information on how to produce a good cover for comics/novels:

Introducing Book Covers!

Judging A Series By Its Thumbnail

https://tapas.io/newsfeed/106
https://tapas.io/newsfeed/107

For folks who may be looking to see how other folks have put together their covers consider browsing this thread if you like:

I am looking to update my current comic cover as it was only meant to be a placeholder because I was looking to publish the first few scenes in time for a zine fest in Portland. But then the pandemic hit so I figured I would wait to publish and build up a following instead. However, it's really hard for me to visualize comic covers and I've been looking for inspiration. Feel free to post your comic covers below! I love seeing people's artwork and I hope it will kickstart my brain to get more c…

If anyone knows of a thread for novel covers let me know or we can make one

Lastly there's a handful of resources folks often point to for 100% free to use images as well as image editing tools which you can find here:
https://www.canva.com/

Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash

https://www.pexels.com/

Free Stock Photos (CC0) - StockSnap

[VibrantFox]

Also I'll add here some of my own covers and some WIPs to give an idea of some of my own stuff and how it looks

So the finished stuff:

And the in progress stuff

So all that shared lets make some covers!

[Inspector_Spinda]

this is my overall cover for the comic

this is the one for issue one

and issue two

Plastic Teeth | Tapas