Adventures In Creating My First Fantasy Novel Cover

From the very first version to all of the revisions I’ve made 9 months later

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So I’m a self-published author (check out my “who am I” post HERE if you’d like more details). And because I’m not a… “well-off” self-published author, I’ve done the whole process myself with a lot of learning the whole way.

But it’s okay because it’s my first book. We all learn somehow, right?

So what I wanted to show everyone today is what I went through with all of my covers for this book (along with some info about my thought processes each step of the way). So without further delay, here is the VERY first cover idea for Arthur Untold.

The picture is from Pexels.com and I played around with it in Snapseed to make it golden and bring out the blue eyes. I had THOUGHT I did enough cover research for…