Are you worried that you’ll alienate your readers by putting someone too old/young/beautiful/ugly on the cover? The answer’s simple… Off with her head.
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10:02 pm
Representing a character is a minefield in any genre, as a reader I want to visualise the main character myself, but as a designer you’re asked to include a figure, make it human.. How can we do it without a bit of head chopping?
10:39 am
Some of these are okay, I actually like the “Midnight Girls” one, but most look kind of incomplete. As though the image was to big to fit on the cover. :/
I used to like these kind of covers, still do, when they´re done nicely. I really like a german book cover with a picture like that on it: http://bilder.buecher.de/produkte/26/26853/26853949n.jpg
Sometimes this kind of cover can add to the spooky or anonymous atmosphere of a novel, but in most cases it looks quite strange.
3:39 pm
[…] talking about Anne Boleyn or Marie Antoinette, I mean the sorts of covers like those collected by Fizabook. I first became aware of it with historical fiction (most notably Philippa Gregory’s Tudor […]