Artloader - Sketchbook

[Amit Dutta]

Hey Art, the comp you chose isn't one of the thumbs...but the centered ones in almost all the thumbs i feel are better for a book cover. One thing i've learned with the book cover work i do is, to keep it simple and not be too fancy for the sake of it alone.

The lower 3 and top right corner all have more interesting poses/povs. The idea you picked as is doesn't have much narrative elements in there, even less than the others, which also are a bit light on that aspect, though could be amped up. Narrative is crucial for genre book cover work.

If I was your AD i'd tell you to do more thumbs or pick a better one and work it until you nail the comp. What's going to get you to pick up the book off the shelves amongst a hundred others...it needs to first be exciting visually/compositionally to get past the noise from afar, and then it needs to make the kill shot with narrative/intrigue to get youto turn over and read the blurb. ;)