/lit/ - Literature

>>18232430
>Everybody else does these awful new style covers with the plain color backgrounds (white is ubiquitous, ugly, eye-wrenching white) and some kind of foreground superimposed image, often a photograph or 3D model or just some abstract drawing or shape. It's just so uninspired.
God don't I know it. Look what they did to Tad Williams' magnum opus.
>left
>detailed illustration with vivid colors
>shows characters in a dramatic scene from the story, something unique to the book
>right
>30 minutes in photoshop
>looks like everything else published in the last 10 years