Quote - What I would like to say here is that I think it is grossly unfair to put peoples images into this thread and call them bad.
Sometimes the artists hands are tied by the publisher in that they want the image done a certain way or in a certain style and believe me some of them can be "VERY" strict on what they want from the cover.
They will quite often give work to an artist based on that artists particular style too because that's what they want, it really is all about what "THEY" want!!

I don't know who the work above belongs to but I don't think slagging them off in a public forum is fair, especially as none of us know the circumstances in which the images were made!

Yes, I do agree to a point.  However, personally if I am putting my name to something I want it to be of quality and the very best that I can do. *

I doubt very much that a  publisher would ever ask an artist to create a sexy / romantic image and state that they want the woman's eyes to be crossed and  that they have a totally lifeless look of dead doll's eyes, unless of course it was a romance between zombies.

It is possible to meet the criteria of a publisher while still delivering something of quality. It's all about attention to detail.  It's the attention to detail that makes some artists stand out way above others.  And you can really tell who cares about what they create vs someone that just slaps something together so that they can move onto the next project.

Harsh? Maybe.  But I'm a perfectionist and it drives me bonkers to see details that should be common sense, blindly passed by the eyes of people who claim to be professionals.

 

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi