Self-Published anons, how did you go about designing a cover?

Commissioning something will make your book look generic but for some reason people like generic.

I just booted up GIMP after thinking of a cover concept and photoshopped some stuff together, it looks kinda crappy though. But cheaper than the 50 dollars plus you'd pay for an established cover artist. You could also just try talking to a drawfag or something, they might do it cheaper than a so-called pro and it might not be as generic.

pay me and i'll illu strate you a cute anime girl

>>10028134
Point taken, I have some friend that *could* do it, but I worry about doing business with friends in general.

>>10028149
Hmm, maybe.

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>>10029629
that'll be $85 thanks. uncensored version $15 extra

>>10029873

I wish I could draw. Then I could draw my own porn and masturbate more efficiently.

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>>10029873
can I pay you in rolled change? Here.

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>>10028080
Just don't put actual photographs, or worse, actual photographs of people, like Wordsworth Classics.
Also, no random handwriting or wacky font for the title/author.
After all those cancerous picture covers I'd rather just see a text only cover, with some small old school decorations like (pic related)

>>10029873
Still better than Wordsworth Classics.