What's your opinion on covers?
Added 2016-12-14 18:17:01 +0000 UTCThe second chapter of Monster girls on tour will end in some weeks, and i'll have to do the cover for the next one. And so, i'm a little doubtful about how to proceed between two options.
One option would be to do the same thing as i did with Guild adventure, and the same is usually done in manga: To do an illustration cover, maybe humorous like this kind of covers in which the characters appear doing things unrelated to the comic; sci-fi, cooking, magical girls, etc.
The other option is an idea i had when i did the first one, and it's to do ALL covers for chapters the same as the second chapter (the one in the image), but adding the new Monster girls who appear, and erasing those who die (yes, some will die).
Both options have pluses and cons. Doing the second option would give the comic something characteristic, and would help people to remember what characters are in play (and would also be far easier for me to draw); but, the covers would be unremarkable, as they would be more or less the same, and would hardly compensate the readers to wait a week to see the new page and for it to be just a copy paste of the older one.
So, what do you think about it?
Comments
I like how Gunnerkrigg Court implements this, with single illustrations including symbols for the characters and what is going to happen in the story. It somehow makes the cover feel like the opening of a new chapter while preparing the audience to the tone of it.
Sergio "Puntosmx" Montserrat
2016-12-14 18:20:58 +0000 UTC
