Genre: supernatural fantasy, vampire, romance
Btw, this is my drawing. 
Which do you prefer?
Any other comments about the cover or the drawing? Last minute tweaks?
Most of the drawing I’m happy with already. Still not sure if I can improve the hair, but honestly, I’ve spent so long on it, I’m ready to call it done and move on.
Zoomed out and without a frame… I like the flowing cape. Flowing capes always appeal to me for some reason I cannot explain… But yeah, Zoomed out and without a frame…
SD
Hehe. I just love how brilliant that red is. I think it draws the eye.
Which is why I used it. He doesn’t wear red in the book, but I was trying to color-code it so people looking for vampire books would hopefully notice it.
The colour did not grab me, just the cape. I love capes, and I think more people these days should wear them…
I miss my cape. It was deep oceanic blue with tones of aquatic green when it shimmered in the sun…
It burned one day when the storage unit was arson attacked, along with many other treasures that I had…
SD
OMG, that’s like a villain backstory.
But I agree. I was looking at some cape images when drawing/fixing this drawing and I wished I had a cape like those.
The composition of the one zoomed out looks better and doesn’t need the frame to balance it out. Definitely go with the zoomed out frameless one.
I feel like the cape and seeing the full hair gives more context than just the cropped up version. Like, you see that he’s going somewhere or just standing in the wind. At any rate there’s something going on. And the frame gives me historical setting vibes, which I assume is not the case here? At any rate, the zoomed out image is already busy enough, the frame would just clutter it.
Good point.
(Though now I realized that it makes no sense for it to be foggy if it’s windy enough for his cape to fly. 
Let’s blame it on magic).
Correct. It’s an urban fantasy.
It’s funny how you diagnosed why I had to add a frame to that one. I couldn’t put a finger on why it needed a frame, only that it was missing something.
I don’t get that feeling with the full drawing. Actually, looking at it now, the light area on the left plus the white bark on the right, in a way, frame the scene. That’s why a frame would be redundant.
Huh. That’s a fun discovery.
