Thank you so much for your in depth critique! It means a lot! If I continue going for making my own cover, I will certainly use my own drawing for it this time! I guess I had no idea that people would respond to my drawings so positively and was under a false impression that covers were expected...
Thank you for your input! While, I am definitely convinced that my covers no longer work, I am intrigued a bit that you say the covers do convey psychological spy novel only because one of the things that my drawings at least thus far have not conveyed the more psychological/mysterious element...
Oh, well, either way I guess I was just a little overwhelmed at first by all this. Not that I mind people don't care for my digital covers all too much. Really, I suppose I should have known, but the fact that people think my drawings are so nice very much surprised me, ha, ha! For a long time I...
Oh, when you said "make it thee" did mean the third illustration should be the cover? Cuz now that I think about it, it would look pretty nice. Thank you.
Thank you for the feedback ^-^
Though, one thing I should mention is that I was not going to be ignorant enough not to put my name on it somewhere, but yeah, I get everything else you are saying.
I used my photos of a clock and a slowed light spinning image of a Christmas decoration to make this image in Photoshop.
This is the working cover for my story A Lease on Wonderland. Matthias Haddler is the victim of an experiment in which is he is brainwashed into believing he's the Mad Hatter...
I like the soundtrack to Stardust. I can't say it's better than the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, but I have used Stardust when making up stories and characters. I tend to like stories with a quirky side I love the soundtrack for that bounce in it. Another soundtrack I've used for inspiration is...
I have used dreams in my stories. I don't know about world building exactly, but they have influenced characters and locations. I dream in architecture, so even if I'm doing something mundane in my dream the location can be very inspiring especially.