What if the comic cover is colored in a different way than the comic itself?

[ilesarki]

Hello. I recently started thinking about things on the current cover of my comic series Karamador. As you can see, I've colored it traditionally with color pencils, but the comics themselves I've colored digitally. I started to think that if this is badly misleading and bothersome when cover and the comic are colored in different methods? Or does this really matter much in the end? I haven't gotten anyone calling me out on this yet, it's something I personally started thinking.

Karamador | Tapas

[BLTX]

Very similar situation. While both colored digitally, my cover is done using the painting tools in photoshop, while the comic itself is just done with google drawings. And like you, no one has called me out on it.

[TheLemmaLlama]

In your case, imo they looks similar enough to not be misleading as your comics have a traditional-media-feel to it despite being coloured digitally. I'd probably say a piece of misleading cover art would be your cover but with super-smooth, fully digital drawings in the panels

[Legendofgenii]

They style is the same, so I think it’s fine.

I’ll have to go read your comic now. I want to know what happens next.

[ilesarki]

Thank you! New pages are coming every week!

[Legendofgenii]

That’s great! I binge read all the episodes. I love it.

[goatbat]

I think having a slightly different cover than the comic itself is pretty normal- when buying DC and Marvel comics, they sometimes surprise me since the cover is often drawn in a very different style than the panels themselves. I also think it's pretty typical for the covers to have maximum effort where the panels are a little more simplified (I'm certainly guilty of doing that, lol.)

I personally wouldn't worry about it at all! I think you're fine.

[Moesakuara]

This is totally normal. Black and white comics will often have color covers, if not always have color covers, and stylized covers or variants by other artists are the norm for print comics. I wouldn't stress about it. My book is done with flat colors, lots of texture and gritty ink lines,different than my cover, which is fully shaded. As long as you're capturing the spirit of the comic, how it's done doesn't matter.

[Zino]

Yeah i wouldn't worry about those covers, besides isn't it totally normal to make your cover a bit flashier or with different coloring technique? I think it's more important that the cover is drawn by you, so the characters in the comic will look about what you'd expect just by seeing the cover.

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