I Paid Artists on Fiverr to Design the Same Book Cover [CC] 

THE HP FONT.. HELP & the wearing a ballgown to a frat party has me dead💀

Video idea for you: design covers for books that aren't out yet (like no cover, no title on Goodreads) of popular authors. You can look at the author's past books and maybe get a sense of the cover style. Like, V. E. Schwab is coming up with the third book, Victorius in the Villains series.

I'm a bit surprised nobody even tried to take this cover in a more modern direction considering the tone in the blurb was more comedic. From the premise I would've guessed something more silly and colorful.

These covers scream “graphic design is my passion”. As a graphic designer, I’m sad.

didn't even know what my expectations WERE and they still weren't met 😭

The third one screamed zombie apocalypse to me

Can you maybe design a cover for this yourself in the next video? I'm really curious to see what you would come up with. Even I have some good ideas but I cannot use photoshop haha.

I love how throughout the video you quickly realize you should always just make your own covers 😂

Why did I think 'zombies!' as soon as the third one was revealed? 😂

I love how you always include [CC] in your titles so I know I’m safe to read the captions :]

I think the saddest thing is that circa 2013 these would have been actual book covers because I found some similar ones in my bookshelves 😅 the last one would definitely be out

That Harry Potter font is hilarious. I love that you did this and then talked through them all for us.

Ok, I'm feeling much better about the basic covers I spend hours making on Canva 😂

The first cover look like a 1920s historical mystery which is inspired by the Gatsby era. I've seen some covers like that. Cover 2 is just bad. The girl on the cover and the fog 😂 the castle in the bg looks okay. The third one looks like a cheap thriller novel. The photo is okay but the font style sucks. I think the 4th one is the best out of these. The photo is cool, the text is really bad tho.

This is a fun idea until the covers were revealed, I'm sorry that it didn't work out like you expected. The three with the houses look like historical something books and not modern ones like the humour in the brief suggested :') Hope you have more fun when you're filming your next video!

im mourning for your wallet because of these covers 😭 would love to see you make a spellbound hellhound cover the right way!!

Halfway through - great video

I am curious on a evolution of this idea. Like. If you did get too workshop the cover and find an artist or cover artist that is close too your preferences and do the back in forth. It would be cool too see were you start then into what it comes.

Am designing 3 book covers atm, for the first time. It's such a difficult task. There is so much to take into consideration. At least with your video am learning much more of what not to do. 😅

OMG You're brutal Angus! Those reactions would break glass haha, but amazing. I have seen many YA novels that literally have cover designs like these.

hey! i love your works. maybe you can make a video tutorial on how you redesign book covers. id love to learn everything from such an artist like you.

I'm a book cover designer and that first cover looked like a template for some sort of corporate / business related book. That was awful. Lots of designers use stock photos in their covers. There is nothing bad about that. This person just did it poorly.

Essas fontes estão de matar

i was so hopeful considering the brief was pretty fun and its ya/na but these covers were so disappointing- also did any of them actually read the brief😭

You get what you pay for. It would be interesting to see what a true designer, someone who is expert at typography and color (as these designers clearly are not!) would do with this project, but the budget would have to be greater. Reedsy vets its designers, but they charge more.

Checking your channel to see if you have covered illustration. This was eye opening. I can make better photoshopped covers myself.

I think the first cover would have be been great for a Dan Brown style thriller, but not so much for a YA urban fantasy 😆

How bout a pixel art book cover?

I've been watching a few videos like this and everyone else seems to have better luck with covers than you.

Hello

love your channel! rip these covers though

Fiverr quality is why I'd never use the platform to work :D

How did you get into book design? It's my dream job, I'd love to do it remotely

This is such an amazing concept!!!! But, YIKES! Those covers are... not good.

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Are you in the occult? How do you know so much regarding that

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Video idea: you design a book cover this is titled just Angus about a bookstore owner's and steak restaurant that opens next door enemies to lovers. And do one something youtube name inspired for other booktubers e.g. itsdivya. P.s. idk if your vegan if you are my bad. Loving the channel 🥰

If you look for really bad artists on Fiverr, then you get bad covers. It takes a long time to find good artists on Fiverr. You have to look at the reviews. If you write in the briefing that the artist has creative freedom, then you shouldn't complain. You have to give more precise information about your ideas. Not all artists on Fiverr are bad.

This was such a good idea ahaha aww so sorry they turned out so questionable 😂😭

Im just beginning to start designing covers on fiverr and even I know these didn't cut it. At all.

I feel like I just took a MasterClass in book cover design and I ain't mad

that building in the last design is literally metres away from me at the university i attend i can't believe this 😭😭 (university of toronto btw 💀)

I'm sorry is this a new career for me? Book covers on Fiverr? Cause I don't even know how to use photoshop, but give me PowerPoint and a stock image website and I can make these 🤣🤣

those covers are experimental art 🤣🤣🤣🤣

That first one reminds me of a romance book lmao 😂. Oh jeeze the second one is bad 😬.

I got custom book covers on Wattpad for FREE that were better than these.

number three doesn't fit the motif, it's a sci-fi illustration and not unique, it doesn't give any indication of content

photoshop covers always look cheap and mundane

omgg you need a refund 😭

I hate modern book covers, they all look the same. It's like 5 year old kids playing foot ball, one kicks the ball and everyone chases it. Where is the original art work? Where are the new and fresh ideas?

first one cliché as hell

number two, cliché as F**k. Every romance cover in one, no imagination and doesn't fit the theme

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Awful

I have a video suggestion, Angus! I’ve seen this been made before by a few booktubers/bookstagram, and what they did was choose or let the followers choose between different country editions for different books The reason many in my country did this was because my country (Brazil) has a very good reputation when it comes to book cover design, I personally purchase a lot of my countries editions instead of the US or UK, because they do such a good job! And the thing behind this was the fight that happens here around evelyn Hugo’s cover (which no one is satisfied by 😂) Hope you like this idea! (Note: the ones I’ve seen are a german bookstagram, he puts up polls with different covers, his page is kaispellmeier; and the booktuber, who is brazilian is Livraria em Casa, here on youtube and livrariaemcasa on Instagram; but I’ve seen many more people do it!)