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Hi Gregg,
I've found from personal experience that the best way to find the right designer for you is to look at a LOT of covers other ebook writers have commissioned. One site that offers a useful tool for this is: http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2011/...design-awards/ The Book Designer blog has a monthly eBook cover design awards, and the artists are listed. It takes a little time to filter through a couple years worth of work, but it's a great tool to discover a lot of designers. I hope that helps, -Ramsey |
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I see you are in suburbs of Chicago. I am too. I found a local young artist to do my book cover via Craig's List. I wanted hand drawn as well. She was able to meet with me, I bought lunch, discuss what I wanted, do two sketches and turn one into PDF. To see her style, her webpage with portfolio is http://lindseydarter.weebly.com/portfolio.html [promo link removed - moderator] Last edited by dreams; 03-07-2013 at 02:01 AM. |
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Hey Vincent
I think I dismissed Deviant Art too quickly. I went back and looked at it again. There's a lot of great stuff there. But I was a little bit unsure of the whole thing because 99% of the stuff was not in ebook form. So if it's just a drawing, is there some way of transforming that into an ebook cover? And then I would have to get a graphic artist to do the graphics, right? I guess it seemed like more work than just hiring somebody to do a cover. Got any experience with that sort of thing?
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If you're talking about an electronic image created in a graphics suite like Photoshop, then conversion to ebook format is as simple as changing the resolution and image dimensions. Any beginning artist can do it. Adding title and byline text is a bit trickier, at least if you want it to look good, but in my experience most artists who accept commissions do a very good job with the typography. |
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Makes sense. I just want it to be so cut and dried (and easy!). Thanks, man.
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If you're still looking for a top notch cover designer, I highly recommend Don Semora. His covers are top notch, plus he's done every single one of mine (save for the self cover I did for EF1) and I'll keep using him for all future books as well. He's also won numerous awards for his cover art too.
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