Ironically, she can write a bit. I checked out her covers and yeah, they’re pretty horrible, but she opens well and her prose ain’t dreadful, riddled with homonym errors or the other typical dreck that we see so often.
She simply either has an incredibly limited cover budget or she just has terrible taste in art, which is ironic, as that’s her degreed background.
I guess as they say, everybody has different tastes, eh?
“Sarah claims to be an artist who writes.”
If she has a degree in art then it must be poor taste. I had literally no budget for cover art, yet even without money or artistic ability I was able to create something halfway decent. I struggled, but even my first attempts were more than random elements poorly composited or over-filtered (a simple oil-paint texture is all I used).
It doesn’t take an artist’s eye to see that your characters and backgrounds are lit and shaded differently or that your text is unreadable. Even the most basic programs can fix shading and color and add a drop shadow to legible text.
Most of the 5-minute re-dos on Cover Critics are better than these.
I don’t know how you’d have a degree in anything remotely related to art and think these are passable. My niece had more talent and a better eye before she enrolled in art school.
…Given the author’s other covers, they’ll be pseudohumans. FWIW
Ironically, she can write a bit. I checked out her covers and yeah, they’re pretty horrible, but she opens well and her prose ain’t dreadful, riddled with homonym errors or the other typical dreck that we see so often.
She simply either has an incredibly limited cover budget or she just has terrible taste in art, which is ironic, as that’s her degreed background.
I guess as they say, everybody has different tastes, eh?
“Sarah claims to be an artist who writes.”
If she has a degree in art then it must be poor taste. I had literally no budget for cover art, yet even without money or artistic ability I was able to create something halfway decent. I struggled, but even my first attempts were more than random elements poorly composited or over-filtered (a simple oil-paint texture is all I used).
It doesn’t take an artist’s eye to see that your characters and backgrounds are lit and shaded differently or that your text is unreadable. Even the most basic programs can fix shading and color and add a drop shadow to legible text.
Most of the 5-minute re-dos on Cover Critics are better than these.
It IS a bit odd. ith that degree in art, I mean. Maybe it’s a degree in art restoration or something?…
I don’t know how you’d have a degree in anything remotely related to art and think these are passable. My niece had more talent and a better eye before she enrolled in art school.