attempting to draw book covers from memory

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[@espionagecommitment3440]

Seeing that big ol list of books makes me wonder if you could make a "My favorite book starting with every letter of the alphabet" list... I'm sorry I just love making random lists for fun.

[@paperbacksgalore]

Ooh I love that idea!!!

[@mauracuneo2746]

I love this

[@jamaikadiekiwi]

Yeees!!! Please!!!!

[@SophieElaina]

Yes this is such a good idea!!

[@kimberlymba9065]

Ooohhh! I’d watch that! Great idea 💡

[@lunaacacia]

This is impressive because I couldn't even tell you what was on the cover of the book I literally just finished reading.

[@rebeccamontoya7712]

Right?!

[@shonea8819]

Literally was just thinking that

[@amberc1356]

Yesssss lol

[@TheThreeBookshelves]

I am living for these cover creation videos. MORE, MORE! I’d love to see a “Kayla creates better covers for books with truly horrible ones” edition. Or “Kayla creates literal covers based on the title/blurb.”

[@TynaTheReader]

Absolutely love the “literal covers” idea!

[@colleenequinn3]

As a math teacher, "quadrallelogram" is now my new favorite thing!

[@Kenziebeatty]

Kayla: we all remember her having blonde hair Meanwhile the chat: she definitely was a brunette

[@BooksandLala]

The live chat really betrayed me there 🤭🤭🤭

[@komaedacoffee4298]

How fun would it be if you redecorated romance books as thrillers? Like 'People we meet on vacation' but it's dark lol

[@Feverm00n]

That would be SO FUN!

[@lilypickett2386]

As someone who reads like everything on a Kindle, I'm very impressed that you remember covers from 2014 lol Score: 16/25 Effort: solid 20/25 but Vibes: 30/25 I'd watch these for hours lol

[@MikaylaKennedy]

I think this would be a good game for a Livestream format with a time limit and going head to head against someone to see who gets closest. Doing it for the book club books could be fun?

[@justineslibrary5853]

I knew exactly what the Matched cover looked like and I was so hoping you’d change your background to white, but then you clicked on other editions and I had the shocked pikachu face because I had no idea there was ever a green cover version of that book 😂

[@taylorgayhart9497]

HOW? You’re memory is so good!! No seriously, I can’t remember the cover of books I read last year, much less books I considered reading years ago!!

[@sofiaramirez5145]

This was VERY fun! Definitely do a repeat please 🥰

[@urturningviolet]

I really like this video and concept! I think you did much better than I could for sure. Also, despite the fact that I have never read Matched I knew exactly what the cover looked like.

[@TheAshleymarrs]

Got way too into trying to remember with you for the ones I’ve actually read lmao. Would definitely love to see more videos like this, they’re a lot of fun!

[@CarissaAlana]

"I think we all remember her as blonde" has the same energy as "I think we all sing" lmao. Overall, I feel like you did really well. I'm not sure I could do half as well.

[@kjane1659]

the way that I know every detail of the matched cover 😭😭 I hated it so much but I was gifted literally a dozen copies in middle school by people who were like “I know you like books :)”

[@amjolson1]

You should do one re-designing ugly covers. Or covers you don’t think match the inside/story! I love these videos!

[@Laura-gg7in]

So fun! I would love to see you redesign covers you hated!

[@bexxington759]

I don't read books. I found you with your cover guessing. I'm here for the cover recalls. I'll be back for ANY of your future book cover creations! So great.

[@gaminggirlforever2034]

this may just be my favorite shirt you’ve worn in a video

[@timecapsulereviews6945]

"She's made of hands. Couldn't have guessed that." had me rolling. This was super fun to watch. I feel like the Booksplosion crew did something similar where all of them would try and draw the cover and they would compare to see who was closest. Maybe it was a fever dream.

[@SarahEsmaeWolfe]

The mandala on the cover of A Song of Wraiths and Ruins is the only thing I remembered and its the only thing Kayla forgot 😂

[@ava_lavender]

Tangled: 3/5 ASoWaR: 2/5 Run Away: 2/5 Matched: 2/5 Her Name in the Sky: 2/5 Total: 11/25 Honestly, that's way better than I would have done lol

[@mayareads708]

got so excited but its not here yet HAHAHA.

[@mayareads708]

IM BACK ahaahah

[@Lilli626]

I love for your artistic videos! (a fav is finding new hobbies ones)

[@mayareads708]

this is so much fun. i want more hahaha. i could watch an hour of this no joke

[@susanbrown8476]

LOOOOOOOVE seeing your graphic design skills along with the element of speculation as to what covers look like!!!

[@taylorthompson7283]

This is as so fun, I haven’t even heard of many of these books and I still enjoyed watching 😊

[@tayrocks22]

I'd give you a solid, like, 3/5 for every book. I think you nailed the colors, for the most part, and sometimes the vibes, but details were, er, certainly lost on you lmao. So a solid 15/25. But your memory for colors and general vibes? 25/25. You got the general concept of most of them down, I'd say, it was just remembering exact layout that betrayed you (as well as sizing/proportions/hands). Also really just here for your "no f--ing way" when you saw there was people on that cover lmao. It looked much more spot on in the thumbnail, I must say. Didn't even realize there was people til I watched this and you said something about them lmao.

[@Booksandbabel]

I love all these cover design videos. Also your memory of what is on the cover of these books is amazing and you get all the points for the right vibes from me I could never

[@alisonbrown1296]

What a cool idea! I think you did a great job all around!

[@cassiebooks9074]

I'd say definitely do a part two. Maybe in that one you can make the challenge harder by drawing covers from the most popular books (both read and unread) from each of your years on booktube? I think it could be fun but also funny because how does one remember a book cover from years ago that they never read... BUT they know they have in fact seen it many times.

[@cassiebooks9074]

Also I've heard some good things about "Her name in the sky"

[@VeraFran]

You did better than I'd ever do. It was fun and you remember so many details, even if with mixed information.

[@TheReadingandWritingLife]

Okay... when you described the woman in the last book and said "she has... arms!" I lost it!! 🤣😂🤣😍

[@MovieTrollop]

I love this video concept! 10/10 would watch a part two.

[@lottastam5168]

Omg you know Geowizard? That is such a niche overlap lol, I love his videos

[@its_just_seb]

this has definitely been done before, which is not a bad thing, but since you asked, becklebooks and Zach's Books have done it. PolandbananasBOOKS did it with a bunch of other booktubers on her channel, but the twist there was mostly to draw the covers blindfolded.

[@daijahsbookworld]

you lowkey did really good on most if not all of these

[@Littoface]

Please do more of these, they're so fun to watch! :D

[@Nikki.O]

I won't be able to watch the premiere as I REALLY need to go sleep like... now. But I'm looking forward to watching this first thing tomorrow morning! Sounds super creative and original as usual 😁

[@crushgoil]

More of this please! Your cover videos are definitely my favourites

[@twentyonereaders]

You inspire me to continue growing my creative skillset

[@Biobotica]

I love this. More please!

[@Maraleftthechat]

This was so fun! Please do it again 😍

[@taliw7736]

super cool Id wanna try lol I probably forgot lots of book covers art.

[@BetweenLinesAndLife]

It‘s the snow globe for me

[@jessgignac8426]

Tangled - 3 points. A song of wraith and ruin - 2 points. Run Away - 2 points. Matched - 2 points. Her name is the sky - 2 points. I mean, you did pretty fucking good, I can’t even remember what a cover looks like from a book I read last week 😂

[@RamblingsOfAnElfpire]

Love this! You should do one with books you've read but redesign the cover concepts

[@racheloconnell9129]

This is actually so impressive

[@KatieColson]

What’s hilarious is that I pictured the exact same cover for A Song of Wraiths and Ruin. Before you said that’s what it looked like, that’s exactly what I imagined. Is this a Mandela Effect moment??

[@KatieColson]

Okay hold up. I SWEAR that there aren’t a people on the cover of Run Away. Like that has got to be an alternate cover

[@shannon7608]

I looooove watching you make book covers! So relaxing and interesting! Your graphic arts skills are amazing. 💗

[@PSYCHOreader624]

Definitely do again!

[@samwitch23]

I love this type of video!

[@mcjordie]

"Anyone who were like 'you should be a cover designer', you are *eating* your words!" lol 😆

[@chriswildfire]

Kayla you did great. Lol when you said the Matched girl was blonde I was thinking no she is brunette. And I think the circle represent the pills they have to take. So throughout the series the circles are the different colored pills the society takes.

[@MJ-ed2xx]

But... why wasn't this a drunk vs high competition? I really wanted to see drunk Kayla taking it way too seriously and failing and high Kayla just nailing it without even trying.

[@BooksandLala]

Hahahahahahaha this is an incredible idea

[@dgdavis33]

This was absolutely entertaining 💜 Your random giggles were contagious 😂😂

[@leticiacarreiro]

Omg, I love this video, so much fun, would love to watch more. I can't even remember the book cover of my last reading, you did more than amazing!

[@AbiofPellinor]

Okay but why do I remember the Matched cover so vividly when I've never even read the book?! 😂

[@thewitchyreader6131]

This was such a fun video! I would do this, but I don't pay enough attention to covers to remember what they look like, lol.

[@peytonforbes4440]

i absolutely loved this video, please do a part two!!!

[@christinaw2102]

Definitely do it again! And when you've done three, we get a weekend reading vlog where you read the ones that you chose from your tbr. 😁

[@billiep1603]

Kayla: who wrote that? Me: Stephenie Meyer? Kayla: Stephenie Meyer

[@Megan_readingawaythedays]

When you where writing the blurb in Ally Condies and was like who wrote that I was like Stephanie Meyer 🤣 she was on every book it felt like

[@kate-ne]

I'm just gonna list out points in sequence to the point categories so I don't forget. I wish I could type a graph in a comment lol Color: 1, 0, 1, 1, 1 Main elements: 1, 1, 1, 1, 0 Title: 0, 0, 1, 0, 0 Details: 1, 1, 0, 0, 0 Vibes: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Total: 16/25 Omg I feel like I scored you so low but I was SO IMPRESSED the whole time watching. I would have absolutely failed this because I forget covers as soon as I finish a book lol

[@averym7068]

Matched is the first book I ever consciously DNF. I tried for a year to finish it, like I had it in my bag all the time and would pick it up and read lone page and then have to stop. I got over half way through it but I was at the point where reading, my favorite hobby, was feeling like a chore because I was trying to finish this book that I just hated so I finally just stopped reading it and that is still one of the best decisions I’ve ever made lol

[@nathaliat2773]

I LOVEEEEED THIS VIDEOOOO! I want a part 2! It is so entertaining :)

[@klowne26]

LOVE THIS VIDEO! My scoring, as a very non-biased and totally qualified person (lol): Book 1 (Tangled): 3/5 Book 2 (ASoWaR): 1.5/5 (giving half a point for colour) Book 3 (Run Away): 4 Book 4 (Matched): 2 Book 5 (HNitS): 2.5 Total = 13/25 Better than I ever could!

[@maamethebookworm]

I love that you integrate graphic design & cover art into your book-tube channel. So much fun!🤍

[@SundayLaughs]

"The longer this video goes on--" I hope it goes on for longer "--the more I think I probably shouldn't post it--" no, you absolutely should "--and it's very stupid--" it is and i need MORE

[@abbymiller8160]

Another brilliant video idea, please do a part 2!

[@beccabooked]

Loved this! For the last one, maybe you mixed it up with A Million Junes cover because you mashed them pretty well (the gold foil, the dress)

[@kerisbookishcorner2864]

This was so fun and I tried to guess along with you and I sometimes was so confident agreeing with what you were doing and then totally shocked when it wasn’t right 🤣 I TOTALLY never realized there were people on Run Away by Harlan Coben either!!!

[@taylorgayhart9497]

I am stuck in a hotel room alone for the third night in a row (traveling for work, don't want to just sit at a hotel bar alone for hours) so your timing is perfect!!!!

[@josiewartnick2944]

I now need a full video of Kayla guessing blurbs.

[@rainshadow605]

My scoring for each book (mostly based on how close I felt it was vs your actual breakdown of points per book). Book 1: 3/5 Book 2: 2/5 Book 3: 4/5 Book 4: 3/5 Book 5: 2/5 for a grand total of 14/25, it's not horrible lol. This was a lot of fun to watch though! I'd love it if you did it again.

[@saradjaroud971]

I love how Kayla used to get inspired by beauty youtubers videos and now she’s getting ideas from Geography content creators 😅

[@amberd6696]

I think you are too hard on your self! I could not get nearly as close as you did!! I think these videos are fun to watch and I love the idea of buying and reading the book if you didn't get close. But I could see resemblance with your designs and all the covers!

[@samg388]

I give you the full 25! Sure you were off on some but you did really well for not actually owning some of them. I would love to you do it again. Maybe remove some of the old ones, it might be for more fun to see you do books that we remember you reading or that we see you talking about adding to your TBR.

[@crazzzyyChristyyy]

this was so fun! omg i hope you can do another one soon!

[@samantharose1001]

This was SO FUN!!! If you want to, you should totally try it again 💛

[@sofisofi2155]

You are the most creative booktuber!! I loved it, hope you'll do it again! :)

[@zoew_]

matched is what everybody was reading when i was in middle school

[@ShakespeareandSuch]

kayla I love that you’re somehow embarrassed about not perfectly remembering covers of books you read eight years ago but very blasé about forgetting the names of shapes 😭

[@BooksandLala]

That really sums me up as a person right there 🤭🤣🥸

[@ElinneaG]

"We all know it's green" I think you're vastly overestimating me there 😂

[@bry4212]

I loved this concept, I’m not artistic at all but it was fun to play along in my head!!

[@gabbyreads]

Ahhh I love this!! I love whenever you involve book cover design in your videos I think it’s so fun! You have a great memory for books that you read so many years ago 🤯

[@StephanieNics]

This was so much fun to watch! You sounded hard on yourself, but I think you nailed these covers.

[@priscillareads]

Oh god I would have failed miserably at this. My memory is so bad

[@katekay]

Why did I get a notification for this video? 🤔 weird, but glad I’m here now!!

[@bihter3201]

I love this could you make a video where you make covers what you want them to be instead to real ones

[@beccadoingstuff]

I LITERALLY just reread Matched because it was a childhood favorite😂I was thinking about which books would be easy for me if I were to play this game, and that one was up there

[@beccadoingstuff]

I gave it a 3 out of 5 stars now, a lot for nostalgia’s sake haha

[@kyra8138]

your versions of the covers really gave me "graphic design is my passion"

[@caprisbookisland]

This was really fun, you did way better than I would’ve. There would’ve been a lot of blank pages 😭

[@amandalily28]

I’ve seen that her name in the sky cover so many times and I have NEVER noticed that those are hands at the bottom

[@disha_s]

this was SO much fun, i was laughing so much! please do this again 😅

[@mango3269]

Is this video stupid? Arguably. Did I love it? Yes 🤭🤫

[@zoes2492]

I loved this video!

[@andreabelec7852]

I loved this video. Especially the books that I was familiar with it was fun to play along 🤓 this could def be a series if you enjoyed it!

[@melbugbird]

Please do this again it was so fun watching this! It might be fun if your ever to do it to make a tbr of books with really similar covers

[@cecilygriffis6508]

Matched is alright but you have to admit the cover is stunning