The look I was going for for these was something a little more horror while retaining a fantasy element. I like the combination of those two genres a lot, but I feel my intent came out more in the second cover. I went with lots of cloudy textures and white to beige coloring to enhance that fantastical tone, and of course the apple. I was originally going to make the apple gold as a callback to the story of Paris and the Greek goddess of Chaos Eris. I still might in another cover because I adore Greek myths so much.

As for the first cover, oh boy did I struggle with this one. I knew what I wanted in my mind but creating the right balance of glass breakage and coloring was difficult to fit my intended image. Originally I wanted to have more glass break around her mouth revealing a blackened razor shape smile but it didn’t work out and I had to scrape the idea. But at least in the end I was able to get that striking eye effect that I wanted.

Fonts are still the bane of my existence.

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