Let’s look at some covers we’re enjoying lately!
Sarah: That is a fabulous illustration.
Sneezy: Wow! That’s gorgeous!
It’s so evocative and lush!
Amanda: I think right now, the key to any standout illustrated cover is making use of different art styles.
Amanda: I really love her covers! There’s always a hint of vintage in the design and style.
Elyse: Oooh!
Sarah: I love her covers, too, especially that I can glance at them and know whose book it is. That is a remarkably rare thing right now.
Elyse: I immediately clicked to see what this book is about. It’s got big Midsommar energy.
Amanda: There are so many tiny details. Like what is reflected in her eyes?!
Sarah: It’s disturbing and beautiful and disturbing and fascinating and disturbing and back and forth.
Cover design by Tommy Arnold (Note: Tommy also does the Locked Tomb covers!)
Cover design by Lauren Panepinto
Elyse: The sheer badassery…
Amanda: This reminds me of the meme that bisexuals don’t know how to sit in chairs and I love it.
Sarah: Extremely chaotic, and utterly badass. The manspreading alone is fantastic.
The cover for AFRICA RISEN totally reminded me of the Obama portraits by Kehinde Wiley with the greenery and plant life, and then I realized it was her curls making up the background. Her face is so full of emotion and sadness.
I love the tiny, asymmetrical details to the woman’s face on SHE IS HAUNTING. The uneven teeth, her eye lashes and eyebrows being just slightly different and imperfect. The way her hair frames her face and draws you to look at her mouth.
And THE FAITHLESS – love that it’s a FMC on that throne with that posture and she doesn’t look sixteen and perfect. She looks tired of all the BS, but will still stand up and kick ass if she has to. I went looking for the book summary and the cover for the first book in the series as even more atmospheric and intense.
Someone just posted one of the prettiest contemporary romance illustrated covers for a book coming out in December. ‘HOW TO FIX A BROKEN HEART’ by Bambo Deen.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198619442-how-to-fix-a-broken-heart