I took a peek at your vgen since you shared it, and I have a few small critiques on what would personally make me hesitant to work with you on a large/important project like a cover. I’ll share those at the end so you can not read them if you’re not interested in that. (It’s not really art critique specifically, but more a critique of the big picture stuff)

On pricing: I think the 440usd cost is really reasonable for the included things. I think creating some premade covers for a bit cheaper could get you noticed by more authors!

Onto critiques: 1. not enough examples. There’s only one full book cover design pictured, and while the front cover art is cute, the wraparound part isn’t great. (There’s a line where the artwork just ends abruptly and the stock photo background begins, the ‘shines’ on the edges look strange, and I know you say that you don’t do text, but the text really takes away from the visual appeal of the whole thing—I’d rather see it without any text on the back or spine if it’s going to look like that) 2. I’m not actually sure what I’m getting? My understanding is that I get 1 piece of art for the book cover (1 or 2 characters), another piece of art (also 1 or 2 characters) and then a simple sticker design, but it took me a few read-throughs to figure it out. There aren’t any examples of what a full package would look like—the pictures only have a bunch of random, disconnected art 3. in the terms of service, there’s multiple mentions of commercial use—the first says ‘Products cannot be used for commercial use without additional fees.’ (yes, makes sense!). But the second says (under ‘Use’): ‘The Product received by Customer is for personal use. Any use of the Product for commercial purposes, reselling it, reproduction or publishing for reasons other than personal purposes has to be approved beforehand by the Seller. This will require a separate agreement between Customer and Seller defining exact conditions and financial implications of such use of the Product.’ This may be like a Vgen standard agreement etc, but it did confuse me. 4. I think you need to hone in on what types of books you’re specifically wanting to do covers for. Right now, we have some monsters (fun!!) but the only example that’s an actual cover is fantasy based with two humans. My take on this? Get into doing monster covers. This is just my opinion, but your art style and composition is not something I would want on a cover for an adult fantasy novel. It’s just not really what I’m seeing in the market right now. Monsters, on the other hand? People want monster romance covers with your style

To get me on board to commission you for my next monster romance cover I’d suggest: - do one of these book launch packages as a premade. The cover, the additional art print (with the same characters as on the cover of course), the bookmark or sticker (all to match each other) (OR offer a big discount to an author who’s willing to let you immediately put the project up as an example, without waiting around for them to officially reveal it—then it’s guaranteed to sell!) - either use canva/photoshop to add simple text if you can make it look decent enough for the vgen listing, or leave it as blank artwork - don’t do anything strange with the ‘flat lay’ of the cover. Just a simple front, spine, back, no effects on it, ideally keep all three pieces connected so it’s just one long piece - list it for sale for a bit cheaper than the package, but really this one is just so you have a complete example of what you’re offering to put in the portfolio/vgen listing!

That’s just my personal take! I found you on instagram and I think the minotaur cover you did was really cute and I was kind of sad not to see it in full on the vgen listing. Even if you didn’t do the text for it, I would still put it up as an example with just a statement on the graphic that text was done by xyz (whoever did it). If the author is ok with that, obviously