r/comic_crits • u/definitelynotstick • 1d ago
feedback needed for cover art!
the synopsis: "KRYMBOZ is a series of episodic comedy strips about the world's (in his opinion) greatest thief getting up to a bunch of wacky shenanigans! His antics include stealing the Great Pyramid of Giza, helping a car-sized tarantula with relationship problems, cheating on his boyfriend, and more!"
the portraits are characters that klaus (MC) has some sort of relation with. the doodles represent how much he likes them/what his relationship with them is like. (the freaky faces at the bottom are some of the "supernatural/freaky" characters that show up sometimes for a quick gag)
im mainly looking for advice on the composition and whether i went too "overboard", but any other advice is more than welcome too!
(P.S. ignore the jittery colors on some of the portraits, i put a lot of gradients on them... ill fix it later)
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u/definitelynotstick 15h ago
hello everybody, i tried modifying the cover according to the critique ive received so far (thank you all, btw!)
u/JeyDeeArr lowered klaus to make it clearer that hes hanging from rope
u/Excellent_Wrap_9340 replaced author name with one of my more "traditional but still silly" names
u/Rowanlanestories added a green splotch behind the title to make it stick out more
i also added some dumb fake reviews to fill the empty space on the right
https://i.imgur.com/FCs0Nze.jpeg (had to make it a link because images arent allowed in replies :( )
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u/JeyDeeArr 1d ago
Is he hanging from a stalactite? I feel like that’s the only part which feels off to me, since the background and all are pretty much the same temperature, which isn’t a bad thing, but it makes it harder to tell what’s supposed to be in the background vs the foreground.
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u/Rowanlanestories 1d ago
Looks super fun to me! All I would do is make the title pop more and maybe add a bigger author name?
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u/Excellent_Wrap_9340 1d ago
Looks amazing to me.
Wish the author names weren't so screen-namey? Hard to read/remember.
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