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[53] - beginner tips for making horror covers

But you can also use regular serif fonts and certain calligraphy fonts to make your cover!

3. Go monochrome

If you're a beginner, I highly reccomend you make your pictures black and white since it makes it look scarier and gloomy, which is the vibe we're going for.

Just go to filter > adjust color > grayscale

You can also mix red into the cover, especially if the story involves killing and a lot of blood.

*again, this rule is not a must.

4. Blur Frame is your friend

Can you notice the difference?

Again, our goal here is to make it dark and gloomy, so making a dark frame around the cover really changes the atmostphere.

To activate it, simply go to filter > frame > blur frame.

5. Get inspired

Making a horror cover is hard, at least for me, so try finding inspiration on the internet!

6. Find a reference

If you're making a minimalist horror cover, you can either :
• use someone else's artwork (credit them!)
• start from scratch
• have a reference

For example, you want to draw a creepy cabin, but you can't draw it freehand so you can just search Pinterest and then use that picture as a guide for you to draw.

But if you're illustrations are more simpler, I suggest you draw it from scratch :

*it's a lil' wonky :') but very simple. All I did was just draw stairs and a thicc stickman holding a flashlight.

That's it for today!

○ n o t e s ●

- I'm not an expert in horror so, sorry to disappoint ya'll :')

- this book has more reads than the one in my old account, I'm so proud ya'll :')

- fonts : all of it is listed above + century gothic

- original pics :