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Possible Mindtouch Cover Refresh
🕑 Added 2022-06-07 13:54:51 +0000 UTCI'm not married to this idea, but for a while now I've been wanting to revisit the Dreamhealers covers and make them match Heartskein: painted with gouache, rather than done in pen and ink and marker, and paying stricter attention to the symbols in the arches (something I only started thinking more seriously about after Mindline).
I'm planning on refreshing all the book covers, and for the most part making them look more modern/similar to existing ones. The Dreamhealers covers are the only ones I kind of want to keep over-the-top old-fashioned "this was done by an artist like something out of the 1980s."
I've attached a comparison, in case you can't remember them off the tops of your heads.
At very least, the sketching part should be entertaining? What do you think? Worth the effort?
Comments
Conrad Wong
That is a lovely new design! Maybe it could be a 10th anniversary reissue or something similarly special?
Squirrel
As a reader with significant visual impairments, the illustrations have always been kind of "plate dressing" to the meal of storytelling to me. So if you ask me if the art rework is "worth it" to me personally, the answer is definitely not. But the other side of the "worth it" question is whether the art rework is "worth it" to you - what is the "worth" you get out of the time investment? Do you find it a net positive, like time to focus on the characters and let the back of your brain percolate about stories? Or do you find it a net negative, like a source of time stress that won't lead to direct income? I don't think it will make a difference to whether anyone buys the books, if time spent to income ratio is your primary driver in the project. But if you find that doing things like this helps you come up with more story focus, then it may be an indirect time-to-income boost?
