"This wasn’t the fantastical, adventurous side of Palinor that she always craved."
Travel broadens the mind, Lola.
Yes, I recognized a bit of Mars. 😉
I vastly prefer your original cover. It's different, very graphic, yet, even in its sparseness there's a lot of fun things going on. Not just the three worlds in RGB primaries, but how they're all tilted in different directions. It also graphically supports the "Triverse" concept. This cover would jump out at me from a sea of slickly generic paintings.
The, Midjourney AI cover is lovely in its way, but it's location A with a wibbly portal to location B and no representation of location C. There's no "tri" in its Triverse. No one told the AI your portals are all-black, so it's also not accurately representing the "reality" of the book.
But, as you said, the Midjourney cover will appeal to people your cover won't.
But we can note I'm discussing the two covers solely on my interpretations of how they catch the eye and represent the story, not an argument on the ethics of using AI art, which is something I've seen played out over decades any time a new tool is created.
If the jails are like that, the Palinese legal system must be...interesting.
I think I prefer the original cover too, but the new one looks neat, I have to say. It just doesn't say "triverse" to me.
Gosh, I'd forgotten about that AI generated monstrosity. I'm very glad I subsequently moved to the current hand-drawn version!
2022 was a strange time.
Thanks for reading, MIchael!
"This wasn’t the fantastical, adventurous side of Palinor that she always craved."
Travel broadens the mind, Lola.
Yes, I recognized a bit of Mars. 😉
I vastly prefer your original cover. It's different, very graphic, yet, even in its sparseness there's a lot of fun things going on. Not just the three worlds in RGB primaries, but how they're all tilted in different directions. It also graphically supports the "Triverse" concept. This cover would jump out at me from a sea of slickly generic paintings.
The, Midjourney AI cover is lovely in its way, but it's location A with a wibbly portal to location B and no representation of location C. There's no "tri" in its Triverse. No one told the AI your portals are all-black, so it's also not accurately representing the "reality" of the book.
But, as you said, the Midjourney cover will appeal to people your cover won't.
But we can note I'm discussing the two covers solely on my interpretations of how they catch the eye and represent the story, not an argument on the ethics of using AI art, which is something I've seen played out over decades any time a new tool is created.