The Unfinished Song: Taboo - Cover Art

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The cover I designed for my anthology.

A fun book I read to review. I don't know what the cover art will be, but I couldn't resist my own take. I wanted a hint of mermaids without being too mallet-to-your-face about it.

Here's two quite different concept pieces for a friend's dark fantasy. In the first one, I emphasized the female lead, who is a belly dancer. The second one shows the male lead, and the demons haunting him, urging him to rape, that he struggles to resist. The whole mood of the cover is darker, more like a horror or dark fantasy.

I prefer the first one, but then, I'm not a big horror fan. Which one captures the novel best? I'm not sure. Probably, I need to go back to the drawing board on this one....

A sweet Western Romance. To be honest, I had a hard time getting this one right. I'm still not sure I did. I had to do the drawing from scratch on this one, and my hand drawing skills just aren't as good as I'd like.

Here's the original sketch:



Quite different, as you can see. The author said the heroine was too pretty and feminine, and could I make her more plain. She wanted her in pants, not a skirt, not such a fancy hair-do. Hence the changes.

A simple 70s style cover. Front and back. The selling point is the author's name; in this case, the renowned Author Name.

A sexy romance.

With a romance, most covers show the hero, the heroine, or both. To make it fresh and unique, it's nice to capture the mood of the novel. In this case, there was an icy magic involved, as well as a troubled hero, so I went with the cool blue against the dark.

This was my first draft for the cover of a post-apocalyptic, dystopian zombie novel. I tried to depict a gladitorial fight between zombies over a shark pit arena (how cool is that?!) and the cynical, hard-bitten (hehe) main character. I felt I hadn't really captured it.



Next I aimed something less specific, more atmospheric -- to project the terror and decay of the future world depicted in the book.

A mock cover for my own work in progress, a fantasy.

A YA horror novel. I couldn't find the right font -- I wanted something that looked like it had been scratched into a bench at a bus station, since in the book, the heroine finds several creepy messages that way -- so I made my own. This turned out to be a mistake, since it meant any change to the text had to be done...from scratch.

Opps! She's a supposed to be redhead. Break out the Clairol.