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@Leumeister I know this is SO helpful, but, pretty much what everyone else said. 😛 Especially about the need for a question.
And do you mean, can we tell the character on the left is a girl? I think that’s what you meant. That ‘left’ made you write ‘right’. 😛
I can tell, since you mentioned it, but I might be unsure if I didn’t know.@leumeister Hmm… I feel like I liked 1.1 better actually. In my opinion, the title was right how you had it before. As for the characters, there might some way to make them work, but I’m thinking now that you might have an easier time of it not worrying about them. I know, that sounds radical, but it’s going to be hard to fit them on there in a way that will really look awesome (good isn’t good enough). That would leave your cover looking pretty simple, but here’s two things to consider.
1. The best covers are actually very simple. After looking through a bunch of covers, I’ve concluded that the best cover I’ve ever come across is this one.https://www.amazon.com/Animal-farm-Fairy-George-Orwell/dp/0451526341/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485028530&sr=8-1&keywords=animal+farm
2. You can still add some details, just simpler ones. My one thought is that right below the title you could put some planet, star, space station, or other object they are leaving. That would ask the question, “Why are they leaving?”🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
Actually, I meant to write, “Can you tell that the character on the right is a girl”? 😛 Good grief, my mind was working well that time. Not! 😛
Oh, okay. I think I might try something completely different now…
Also, @2, I think that might be overdoing it. :/ IDK. I’ve got another idea that the Animal Farm cover inspired, so I’ll give that a go.
Here’s an alternate cover idea.
I’ll be honest, I don’t like it as much as the others, but if I just change the layout a little, add, perhaps, the dimensions of the ship, it may look pretty good. It’s just an idea I have.
“Can you tell that the character on the right is a girl”?
@leumeister I kind of had it backwards and thought the character on the left was a girl and the one on the right was a boy. Merp.I think cover 2 has possibilities, though I think the title is slightly too big. It kind of looks like it’s falling off the page. And about the Cover 1, what I meant by saying the people were walking in space is that, obviously (unless they have super good technology in your galaxy) people can’t be in space period, because a number of bad things, which I won’t go into here for the sake of time, would happen to them. 😛 Maybe this is just because it’s not really polished yet, but it almost seemed to me like the people were actually running through space, with a big spaceship chasing them. :/ But if you go with Cover 2, that won’t be a problem anymore. 🙂
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They weren’t running through space. It was kind of an overlay of the characters, pasted over the top of the main ship in FTL travel. I’ve seen it implemented in other places, and I thought it would be a good style on the cover. They actually fade into the background a little, as if to say, “They’re not actually there…” Perhaps I need to accentuate that a little more.
@leumeister For version 3.0 with the purple cover, I kinda like the ship blueprint, but overall the previous versions were much better. 1. They were more balanced. 2. They looked more spacey. 3. There was motion. 4. There was a focal point.
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Yeah, I think I might go back to the other style. Version 1.2.1 (the branch for 1.2 :P) I thought looked a little too plain. But hey! An artists’ work is never done, it’s only finished when he’s completely satisfied with it. ^_^
It was kind of an overlay of the characters, pasted over the top of the main ship in FTL travel. I’ve seen it implemented in other places, and I thought it would be a good style on the cover. They actually fade into the background a little, as if to say, “They’re not actually there…” Perhaps I need to accentuate that a little more.
@leumeister Like I said, it’s only a rough draft, and when you polish it up, it will probably look fine.INTJ ➸Your friendly neighborhood mastermind. ➸https://thesarcasticelf.wordpress.com/
Yeah, you’re right. 🙂 I’ll probably work on it on and off for a little bit.
@leumeister, I’m definitely not an authority on sci-fi, So all I can say is that it looks pretty good to me. 🙂
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Thank you! 😀 Anything you would want me to change or add?
@leumeister, ummmmmmmmm…I don’t think so. It looks pretty good to me. I probably like the second one best.
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