Cover Design: Custom Illustration

For authors with the budget to invest in their project, custom illustration is a phenomenal way to make sure that your cover is tailored to your specific content. 

Cover Design: Custom Illustration

1. Pay the base price and upload any notes and examples that you have to help us understand the kind of cover you're looking for. We need to understand the setting, characters, and items that you plan to have appear on the cover's front side, back side, and spine (if applicable). 
2. We'll reach out to you to schedule a call to clarify and finalize what you submitted. 
3. We'll use this information to determine your final cover price. More complex covers will cost more. For example, a plain white cover with overlaid text showing a red apple will cost less than an ornate cover with drawn text showing multiple characters, animals, and objects on all sides of the cover. 
4. Once your invoice has been paid in full, we will create an initial mockup of your book cover so you can see what will be included and where it will be placed. 
5. You review the mockup and let us know what changes you want made, if any.
6. We send the front cover portion of the mockup to our art team for consideration. 
7. You receive multiple audition samples from members of our art team, allowing you to see your specific concept executed in their style so that you can select the artist you think is the best fit.  
8. Your selected artist completes the remainder of the cover art and submits it for you review and feedback. 
9. The artists makes the changes you request (if any) and submits the final display and source files. 
10. Those files are used to create the ebook and audiobook covers for your future use. 
11. You receive source and display files for your paperback, ebook, and audiobook covers. 

Timeline: Generally, about 4 - 6 weeks per cover. But this can change based on various factors, such as how long it takes you to submit feedback, how complicated your vision for the cover is, office holidays, etc.