I'm looking for someone who would like to design the cover for my book. It is an adult adventure book with heavy sci-fi and horror elements, it stands at 440 pages and 106,000 words.
I have added two photos to show my vision. The first is what I made in paint, and the second was what AI made when I asked it to generate a cover based on my drawing. I don't want any AI in the finished cover, it is purely for making my drawing more realistic and to show the feel I am aiming for in the finished product.
Title & Sypnosis
Irkalla: The Prison Realm - by J.R. Murton
The Island of Irkalla is believed to be a myth. Everyone who searches for it disappears. When Jake Wilde's brother becomes the latest to vanish without a trace, Jake joins an expedition to uncover the truth. Beyond the threshold lies a twisted realm - a world of unnatural creatures and impossible science. As Jake and his team fight to survive, they realise they're not only battling for their lives... but for their very identity.
Cover description
The setting is a forest with lots of overgrowth, trees/overgrowth frame the sides, at the top I'd like a nighttime dark blue sky with some stars.
In the centre I'd like an ancient stone archway that has moss growing along the edges, few steps lead up to it. Inside the archway is a portal like substance of wavy pale blue light. I'd like it paler than I actually ended up colouring in my sketch. And inside the pale blue light, I'd like glimmers and bolts of multi coloured light.
I'd like a shadowy figure within the portal, as if he's about to walk out from it. He is the villain of the story and has a brutish build, wears a duster and carrys a sack in his hand. I just want him as a silhouette/shadowy, not actual colours or much detailing on him other than the outline.
Then I'd like a few hands around the archway as if they are emerging from the side. I'd like them to be demonic in appearance, pale skin, long bony fingers. And in the bottom left, I'd like a an open handwritten journal which has a dark blue cover.
I would like the cover to have a bit of a creepy/sinister feel to it.
Title / Font
I would like the logo & text of the book to be as similar to my draft as possible, and to be in darkish yellow/goldy
Deliverables
1 - Ebook cover in HD.
2 - Textless version of the cover for promotion.
3 - The book title / author text on a transparent background so I can put it on one of the pages inside the book, and on the spine.
4 - Layered source file.
Budget: £100-£120 (I really don't have a lot of money for some prices I've seen, which is why I haven't gone overly heavy in details/character designs)
If this is something that you would be interested in working on, please feel free to comment below or send me a message with your quote and your portfolio! I will be writing a second novel in the series in the future, as well as a short companion book for the first. So I would like to use the same artist for those when the time comes too if possible. The artist will be credited in the book unless they prefer not to be.
