The best sites to get anime album covers

You don’t need to have made a Japanese song to want an anime album cover. Anime and manga, in general, are interesting and very descriptive forms of art. They’re certainly an in vouge form of art perfect to stand in as the album cover art for many genres of 21st-century music.

If you’re here, you’re already thinking it – let me show you where you can get the best anime album cover to perfectly complement your made music.

Where to find anime album covers

You’ve got two options when it comes to getting yourself an anime album cover:

• The first is the free option: downloading premade anime album covers or using a slightly customizable anime album cover template to create an album cover.
• The second is the paid option. Here, you commission a professional artist to create an album cover anime style for your needs.

Which option you go with will depend on your needs.

If you need a generic off-the-shelf album cover for maybe a mixtape, then the first free option works well. It’s free, you don’t get to wait and usually, the quality of the album art is good enough.

If you want a custom made anime album cover, maybe something for your debut album, an album you’re hoping makes a strong statement, then you’re better off commissioning an artist.

With an album art commission, you get truly bespoke album artwork made. The quality of the album cover is also way better than anything you’d get from a free download site, provided you hire the right anime album cover artist.

Free download sites for anime album covers

The best free download sites for anime album covers include:

• Postermywall.com
• Placeit.net

Postermywall.com mostly houses premade anime album covers. You cannot make any additional edits to the covers you download, but there’s a huge collection of covers, so very likely that you’d find something that matches your album theme.

Placeit.net is a template site that allows you to assemble a slightly customized anime album cover from a selection of templates. You can make edits on Placeit.net, and the quality of album art is surprisingly good.

I recommend using Placeit.net over Postermywall if you don’t mind the extra (but very small stress) of making edits.

Use this 🔗 link to reach the Postermywall page for anime album covers.

Use this 🔗 link to reach the Placeit.net page for anime album covers.

Anime album cover commissions

You can commission an artist to make your anime album cover on freelance marketplaces for artists like Fiverr and Upwork.

If this is your first time hearing any of both names, just understand that these are freelance platforms with talent from the world over. They house some of the best anime album cover makers anywhere online, and placing a commission is as simple as pie.

Of the two, I especially like Fiverr (and not just because I earn a commission at no cost to you when you use my links) but majorly because of the sheer ease and buyer protection they offer newbie album art seekers like you. It’s get what you want or get a refund, and that’s pretty slick.

Anyhoo, if you’d like to commission an artist to make your anime album cover right now, use this 🔗 link to head off to the Fiverr marketplace for anime album cover makers.

I do, however have a list of preferred album cover makers on the platform so let’s run through that for anyone who’d rather skip the task of making a pick from the marketplace.

Top anime album cover makers

Degeha: best overall

Hire this artist now on Fiverr.

Degeha has been illustrating since 2014, and in that time, he’s picked up all the skills an artist would need to create some really stunning anime album covers. His work definitely packs the ‘umph,’ it’s brightly colored (which is not something you’d usually associate with anime), dutifully detailed and genuinely artistic.

Like I said not your typical definition of anime coloration with the bold greens and vivid blues but more of a mix with emo type colors.

I love just how unique each design element on anime album covers from this artist looks. You can tell it’s all hand-drawn, so no clip art or templating stuff going on here, and that just works to make each anime album cover genuinely one of a kind.

You’ll love the details, the colors and the fusion of anime with emo and pop style art. Degeha is the artist you’d commission if you wanted a fun and uplifting anime album cover done.

Demorae: best for traditional anime album covers

Hire this artist now on Fiverr.

Now, if you’d rather not have the vibrant, in-your-face anime album cover from Degaha, you can settle with the more traditional album covers from this artist.

Demorae’s work features more low-key tones and colors and more traditional looking anime-style art and design. I’d describe it as cool, calm and collected, but that’s a description best left for charming guys like me 😊 – you get the point.

Despite the ‘collectedness’ of his work you still get enough artistic brilliance and creativity infused in each album cover piece. Characters and other design elements are well developed, and there’s a bit of sophistication pouring out from album covers featuring individual characters as design elements. I love it.

You, on the other hand, will love it if what you want is an anime cover album with a character representation of you or any character in your music taking center stage.

Adibfaesol: best for landscape type anime album covers

Hire this artist now on Fiverr.

Faesol is an illustrator with a knack for creating really immersive anime album covers. Know how I said Demorae’s works focused on individual characters and design elements; this guy’s album covers are made to tell a story.

They feature a full-width canvass with intricate design and detailing on the background and foreground (character) elements. Think of it as more of a full canvass painting than it is a plain album cover.

Art quality is top tier, and creativity is excellent as well. You’ll love his anime album covers if what you want is a cover that provides a rather detailed visual introduction of your music to your listeners.

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