Cover's Measurements/What do you use?

[SourDaiDai]

When making your covers (or commissioning) :

• How big do you make your canvas?
  
  
• Do you uses the Pixels or Inches setting?
  
  
• What program do you use?
  
  
• What do you use to draw? Drawing Tablet? Mouse? Phone? Normal Pencil?
  
  
• Do you download brushes? Make your own? Or just use the ones provided?
  
  
• What's your Favorite brush?
  
  
• Do you prefer Hard Brushes or Soft Brushes?
  
  
• Colour schemes?
  
  
• Do you Eye Ball the colours or just Eye Dropper it?

[If you want, post some of your favorite works below!]>ヾ(≧∇≦*)ゝ

 

[K5Rakitan]

I'm not exactly an artist, so mine is cobbled together from other images.
I use GIMP and I use pixels. I go with whatever size the platform uses and fit everything in accordingly.

I'd like to commission a super nice cover someday, but I'm going to wait until I'm almost finished with the story.

 

[JayDirex]

I guess I'll try to give you a step-by-step.
I use Photoshop.

the dimensions for covers on scribble hub are 250 by 350. so what you do is you create a new file and make it 250 by 350 at 72 pixels at first. once you create the file, go to image adjustment and then Jack those pixels up to 300. automatically the 250 x 350 will turn into a proportional higher number.

create your artwork on the 300 pixel canvas. nice and big and clear and not fuzzy. once you are finished you can save a copy of the artwork and change that copy down to 72 pixels. the 72 pixel version will automatically become 250 by 350 proportionally and that is the one that you will use for your cover.

meanwhile your original will be the larger file at 300 pixels.

 

[Moctemma]

I did the drawing on a piece of paper for ink, A4, then I gave the drawing to my sister to color it. The image is 2480x3543 pixels.

My sister used Paint Tool Sai, I use Krita (though my laptop is useless for that, so I have to draw traditionally)

Pencil and ink brush are my favorite materials.

The default brushes, both my sister and I.

Ones with some texture, similar to pastels.

Hard.

None. I'm more about instinct or grayscale.

Eye ball.

This one is the cover draw by me and colored by my sister.

And this one is an old drawing I did, the result wouldn't have changed much if I did all the process.

 

[BenJepheneT]

I basically drew my own cover and cropped it accordingly, with some filters to mask the rough edges.

I find the unrefined quality of traditional pencil scribbles to be much more competent in bringing out a raw theme of any story. I'm not dissing digital art, I'm just giving my opinion.

 

[patbateman123x]

I guess I'll try to give you a step-by-step.
I use Photoshop.

the dimensions for covers on scribble hub are 250 by 350. so what you do is you create a new file and make it 250 by 350 at 72 pixels at first. once you create the file, go to image adjustment and then Jack those pixels up to 300. automatically the 250 x 350 will turn into a proportional higher number.

create your artwork on the 300 pixel canvas. nice and big and clear and not fuzzy. once you are finished you can save a copy of the artwork and change that copy down to 72 pixels. the 72 pixel version will automatically become 250 by 350 proportionally and that is the one that you will use for your cover.

meanwhile your original will be the larger file at 300 pixels.

ty for this .My book cover just got butchered lol

 

[tiaf]

ty for this .My book cover just got butchered lol

Tbh, with how small the thumbnail is, it doesn’t matter what you have as a cover. Only the colors have to be eye-catching.

When making your covers (or commissioning) :

• How big do you make your canvas?
  
  
• Do you uses the Pixels or Inches setting?
  
  
• What program do you use?
  
  
• What do you use to draw? Drawing Tablet? Mouse? Phone? Normal Pencil?
  
  
• Do you download brushes? Make your own? Or just use the ones provided?
  
  
• What's your Favorite brush?
  
  
• Do you prefer Hard Brushes or Soft Brushes?
  
  
• Colour schemes?
  
  
• Do you Eye Ball the colours or just Eye Dropper it?

[If you want, post some of your favorite works below!]>ヾ(≧∇≦*)ゝ

1. something with the same ratio of 250 x 350 px
2. px, everything else doesn't make sense for online publishing
3. Clip Studio Paint
4. Wacom Tablet, maybe surface tablet for sketches in the future
5. Hissss-- Heresy, I only download in the hope it works somehow, HMPF!
6. FAT OIL!! brush and a bunch of korean/japanese named brushes I renamed with random associations I have with them
7. I like textured brushes that can be opaque, sheer, blend, and get thinner or thicker depending on pen pressure. Guess who is too lazy to change brushes.
8. Sacrilege. I play around with filters until I get a good color scheme, or I work grayscale. There is no color scheme, well, 90% of the cover is taken by characters.
9. As long as it is gay, both.

Someone tell me how this doesn't have gay vibes. I don't want to discover another Harem reader adding it to their reading list.
Ok, nvm, I'm changing this into something that slaps gay onto onlookers.

Spoiler: Don't click

I warned you

View attachment 13747

And here we see a cover that doesn't depict the MC and ML but rather a side couple!

 

[patbateman123x]

i somehow squeezed down all i needed into the small pixel size . But my mc isn't gay enough in the cover .Although he do be a pretty boy in the sketches .

 

[tiaf]

i somehow squeezed down all i needed into the small pixel size . But my mc isn't gay enough in the cover .Although he do be a pretty boy in the sketches .

any handsome guy is fishbait

 

[CabbagePreacher]

When making your covers (or commissioning) :

• How big do you make your canvas?
  
  
• Do you uses the Pixels or Inches setting?
  
  
• What program do you use?
  
  
• What do you use to draw? Drawing Tablet? Mouse? Phone? Normal Pencil?
  
  
• Do you download brushes? Make your own? Or just use the ones provided?
  
  
• What's your Favorite brush?
  
  
• Do you prefer Hard Brushes or Soft Brushes?
  
  
• Colour schemes?
  
  
• Do you Eye Ball the colours or just Eye Dropper it?

[If you want, post some of your favorite works below!]>ヾ(≧∇≦*)ゝ

- Around a ratio of 400x600 px
- I prefer pixels since I don't use inches in any way.
- I use Medibang Paint, it's free and it does a good enough job for me.
- Drawing tablet connected to my PC.
- The ones provided are enough for me.
- Just a standard pen brush due to its versatility.
- Hard brushes, they fit more into how I normally draw on real paper.
- Black and white.
- If I use colors, I usually eye dropper and then modify colors until they're suitable.

Here's the cover for my story inspired by early 17th century chapbook covers: