I'd like some feedback on my cover. I created it long before deciding to post on Tapas, and it doesn't match the "typical" cover style I see on here. Most covers that I see seem to be fairly busy and feature fairly intricate art, usually showing the protagonist. Mine is very simple and stylized. Personally, I like it and feel like it stands out. However, I'm also going to be biased because I made it; it could be standing out in a bad way that looks amateurish. The image is below, and then I ramble a bit about why I made the choices I did. Feel free to go ahead and form an opinion before reading my explanation, because it should stand on its own without an explanation. At the end of the day, the questions is: Is this intriguing? Does it suggest that the story will be well-written? Does it look professional?
Explanation: My novel centers around two girls who drive off together and leave their lives behind. Throughout the story they dye their hair a couple times, and the changing hair colors represent their personal growth and, especially in the case of the narrator, becoming more comfortable and confident in herself. It's a very symbolic thing. I chose to represent one of the iterations of their hair on the cover to emphasize this, but I also (obviously) omitted their faces. The two are strangers at the start of the story and know nothing about each other, but it's obvious from the get-go that they both have a lot of secrets that they don't want to talk about. By omitting the faces, I felt it kept a sense of mystery suggesting that you don't really know who they are. There's not much technology in the story, so the handwritten font matched well with the overall vibe and the Polaroid feel.
As for the style, I am NOT an artist. However, I am a graphic designer. I chose a style that I was capable of producing and that I liked, which was this. I liked that it was simple, clean, and very bold at a glance. There's not much room for question about what it's depicting, no matter how small it shows up on mobile. I've seen some excellent covers on here that are fantastic when viewed large, but on mobile, so much of the detail gets lost that it's no longer striking. I may not have designed this with Tapas in mind, but that was part of the reason I didn't consider changing it when I did decide to start posting on here.
I'm happy to give feedback on other people's covers if you leave some for mine - as I said, I'm not an artist, but I do work in graphic design so I have a good sense of layout, color, font choice, etc.