I dunno, I just wanted to picture all four main characters like a cool superhero team. That is why the viewer looks at them from below, as if asking what is it? is it a bird? or a plane? The heroes themselves stand on the edge of roof (only Diego is floating, showing his power) against the background of the sunset, epically looking into the distance and patroling over the city. Also Diego in the foreground as a leading character. And I also like the color scheme: I am a fan of warm colors and this cover just comforts me day after day.
We have more of them now, but I will only write about the first cover of Hexameron.
The poster (aka the cover) with a full-frontal of main character (Gil) indicates that the artist lacks imagination 
Jokes aside, the main thing I wanted to show off is that obviously Main Character is holding the Stone which is extremely important in the comic, since it's what ties him to the mystery. Hence the low angle and big hands.
Originally Gil is blue-eyed and blond, so I tweaked the colors so they would fit the overall palette more. I also used more saturated colors than usual.
The light angle here makes no sense, but I wanted to make it look as if the Stone in his hands is the light source since this kind of light angle is typical for telling scary stories in the dark (which is the main idea of the comic).
The smoke was something that just felt right to fit in a "mystical" kind of the cover, it has nothing to do with the plot. Why is the smoke teal? It just went nicely with an orange t-shirt and it felt mysterious too 
It reminds of the colors of the night forest too, that suits the setting a lot.
All and all it was one of the first real illustrations I did and I suffered with it a lot, so it's hard to tell about artistic decisions and there are no symbolism here.
I will also be changing the cover for every season, showing the MC growing and the stone that changes with him.
Every character's placement means something, in this case Flare is in between Shade and Balzac cause in the comic proper she literally gets caught in their conflict. Still, she keeps focused on her own interests, specially her earring which reflects her desire to know more about her past, which is distracting her from what's going on around her.
Balzac (left) is focused on Shade, as he's trying to finish some open bussiness with him. Khaus (the blue eye) is keeping a close watch on him, being prepared to deflect any posible attack. Shade, however, keeps looking forward as he is actively avoiding facing both Flare and Balzac as he tries to run from responsabilities.
This is my series cover, It is designed fairly simple because it is my first one and I didn't really know what to do with it. My protagonist is Kenin in front, the others are all important as well. I just did a space backdrop because it was simple and looked cool and vibed with the story as a form of foreshadowing. Like I said it's a fairly simple design I will more than likely change later on
I'm going to be changing it eventually, but currently the series poster is a minimalist depiction of the main character in the dual forms he comes in. (One is the waking world, the other is the dream world.)
The cover was meant to show a peek at the concept of the series, but I feel like I didn't get that point completely across, thus I'm going to be changing it.
The reason for this design?
Show off both of the main characters together and their personality/relationship: David (the boy) is shy which he shows through his slouched posture, while the dog (haven't revealed his name yet in the story, so won't here) is leaning back because he is more confident. They are both smiling because they are happy to be together. The dog is more open about it than David, who is a more reserved character.
A forest to show of setting and mood: The first part takes place in a forest a lot. It's also where David lives and feels the most comfortable. It also represents his loneliness and isolation, that is why it's dark and there's no one else in the poster.
In part mine is designed like this because what I initially tried wasn't working and I had to change some things around... But mostly I wanted to show the tension between the two main characters, who start off hating each other, and to hint at the secret they come to share/kind of begrudging interest that develops as they get to know each other. Did kind of a spooky night setting because it eventually falls more into the horror genre, but it takes a while to get there so it's currently listed under drama as its primary genre so people don't get too impatient waiting for the horror.
Nachos Con Carne's cover art is based off a 4th of July/Canada Day piece of character art1 I made a few years back. One of my main characters--Terry on the right--is from Canada.
We're just about to meet a new character in the Tapas/Webtoon continuity in the chapters to come, so I plan to update it later this year.
For the Words. cover, I used a piece I made for a local art show last year in which I intended to show off the characters in it.
This is the upcoming cover for my third chapter that i'll be posting next week:
Its always a tricky process for me to choose what to draw for chapter covers. I went in this direction because this chapter begins with an altercation, so I have my protagonist and his co-stars standing in defensive positions. Later on (light spoilers) I'll be re-introducing some characters from his past, which i'm pretty excited about, so I set the three of them in a cloud-filled environment, an allusion to one of the upcoming character's power, and re-used a theme from a previous cover with the looming shadow to foreshadow(lol) another.
Also i just realized I should probably change the year to reflect the date Chapter 3 starts, and not the date it was drawn on aahaha!
For mine, I really wanted to get the decade feel down pat first. I went with a font that is often used by 70s posters and album art, something a bit like the logo for Yes or Budgie, but not quite something like Genesis. Progressive rock is a huge inspiration for everything I do, so I try to take my influence from things surrounding that genre, including aesthetic. I also love using the color purple, my natural color choices work well for the era, I think.
Here's my cover. I didn't put a huge amount of thought into the composition, so I'll reverse engineer an explanation for my decisions after the fact. Like a champion.
"Tall Poppy Syndrome" is an expression that means: a secret desire to see successful people fail. Building off of that, I have my three main characters reaching towards the top of a tall poppy, reflecting their combined desire to be successful, despite the fact that success is out of reach.
Jim is on the bottom of the character stack, as he is submissive and everyone walks all over him (This is also the reason his head is smallest in the icon in the upper right corner).
The color scheme is warm because I like warm color schemes. That is a totally valid reason.
Cool idea! Here's my novel cover:
Throughout the book, the two main characters dye their hair twice, ending up like this. It's a very outward reflection of clear character development and confidence growth for one, while it's symbolic for the other as well, just less obviously so (and a bit more spoiler-y than I would like to share). The entire book is wholly focused on these two characters and their backstories and growth, so it made sense to focus only on them, and I liked the aesthetic of only using hair. The background was a function of needing to not clash with or match any of the hair colors, which were already set by the book itself. The font was chosen to be reminiscent of handwriting, which I feel fits with the general polaroid aesthetic.
I also wanted to keep it very simple and clean to be striking at a glance and not require much time to take in, especially since covers display so small here. I played around with silhouettes of their faces from a profile view instead, but it never really worked.
Here's a link to the story. Still very early in the posting!
The story takes place after a devastating apocalypse, and as a result there is just smog and ash everywhere, so I looked for an image that could resemble that. The one I found just had this really quiet eeriness to it that appealed to me. it really had the somber and empty atmosphere I was looking for. then I added the campfire because that's the other part of the story, people sitting around a fire and telling their life stories. The font was chosen because it sort of felt like it was in tune with the dialogue style (very snappy, heavy swearing)
This is my current book's cover, without the text. It's called Grim & The Vampire.
The central subject is Graham, dressed up like a vampire. His high-collared jacket blends in with the silhouette of the living shadow that stalks him, and he's surrounded by crosses - maybe gravestones, maybe something else. Bats and birds and leaves are swirling around in a windy autumn vortex, under the crescent moon. The background is slightly pink, as well as the apple in Graham's hand (a subject of the book and minor allusion to Twilight), while Graham himself is in black and white, to suggest a silver-screen monster movie tone for the story. It is unclear whether Grim is the hero or the villain, whether the shadow is his own, and which one of them is the Grim and which one is the Vampire.
The overall effect is two entities leaving unmistakable impressions on each other, both bound by deathlessness and struggling for their own identity through supremacy over the other.
And... I might change it! I think it makes it too confusing as to which one is which, and it comes from an earlier build of the story where Graham WAS the vampire. I'll share the new one when I make it.
