We present our Fantasy Book Cover Cliches Gallery 2. What turns a fantasy book cover into a cliche? Colors? Composition? Typefaces? The hundreds of copy-cat covers thrown onto the band-wagon?
We present a few more familiar cover classics.
Soft focus like a shampoo commercial
Bigger dragon, smaller girl.
Monumental architecture
A girl, a sword, a sunset.
Big author, small title. More swords & sunsets
Runes, cut-outs and a big Sans-Serif font