Judge a Book by its Cover (Top Cover Design Ideas for Budding Authors)

Believe it or not, book lovers do tend to get swayed by cover designs. If recent psychological findings are any indication, book covers play a crucial role in getting picked from the shelf. The probability of a newly released book getting noticed depends more on the cover jacket illustrations and title, than the actual content, author recommendations, and other factors associated with a really good book.
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If you are an author/writer/poet and wish to push your book's sales, you should really focus on your book's cover design. An intriguing design can actually inflate initial sales and give your work the much needed recognition it deserves. You must acknowledge that all amazing art requires the stepping stone of business and commerce to travel around the world for getting showcased. Hence, your tiny investment in a brilliant cover design can go a really long way in catapulting your work's financial outcome.
Avaricious readers around the world buy books for reasons that involve more than just reading them. Some books with their highly artistic jacket illustrations serve as great decor items for living room bookshelves and coffee tables. Thus, for young readers and millennial owning homes, in this day and age of glorious digital content, a book is not merely an instrument of learning. It is how readers express themselves and their inner artistic sensibilities. Nobody understands this better than the suave team of artists at Essence Studios Services.

What Makes A Design Type "Great"?

• Complex art: Old English calligraphy and complex art make for some really eye-catching cover illustrations (think The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch). Such complex artwork, painted in the fashion of renaissance or impressionist artists, can actually incorporate crucial details of your book's narrative while giving some interesting glimpses. However, if your book is pertinent to business, finance, ethics or some other didactic field, then you are advised to keep your cover design clutter free and simple.
• Abstract: Sometimes, your cover need only be the representation of a concept, than be occupied by a recognizable object. Abstract patterns, shapes and forms call for the highest order of artistic intellect and require ideas only a few can come across regularly. The beauty of abstract cover designs lies in the simple fact that they can be used for books of almost all genres, without distorting the essence studios of the book's content.
• Bold text: The trend of the book's title occupying almost all the available space of the cover is one that's unlikely to die anytime soon. Bold, large, letters screaming for the reader's attention, often glossed over and in bright, attractive colors take centre-stage with accompanying patterns and brush strokes. Typographical design allows immense flexibility when it comes to experimenting with font styles, shapes and sizes.
• Comic strips: Comic strips need not be cover design essentials for comic books alone. Sometimes consequent horizontal and/or vertical panels, combined with great artistic skill, can make for some really breathtaking cover designs. Often, these panels can be used to depict linear progression/regression for the protagonist(s) offering a delectable sneak-peek into your book.
• Minimalist art: Often artwork that involves a single recurring motif of the book's content, or designed to give away significant plot points; do more to attract a potential reader than anything else. This requires extreme creative ingenuity on the part of the designer to keep the design subtle without giving away too much information. Fortunately enough, the deft expertise of Essence studios services' designers meets all the demands of such creative enterprises.
• DIY/Organic: Some cover designs look beautiful simply due to their organic creation from scratch. They involve no previously created typefaces or patterns. Designers take great pains to create every single element of such designs; including an entirely new calligraphy set and minimalistic art surrounding each letter. Expect designers at Essence Studios Services to channel painstaking efforts into designing cover illustrations worthy of your unique artistic sensibilities.
• Photographic marvels: Photography has evolved to such a degree as to demand a separate art discipline of its own. Just scroll through any swanky Instagram account or Facebook page and you would know what we are talking about. Thanks to the accessibility of smartphones with great camera qualities, daily life can be an amazing muse for impeccably photogenic clicks. Some of these photographs make for fantastic cover art and with a bit of editing, they can offer a window to the contents of your book.
• Mishmash: As the name suggests, your book's cover art can be an accumulation of different elements all at once. It can be divided into different sectors with each sector representing a different artistic concept. It can perhaps be even a collage with different motifs all infused into a single central object. If your book deals with historical events, then newspaper clippings with headlines for the book's title can work wonders for your cover design.

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