It's usually the novel cover, most of popular manhwa usually an adaptation from a novel and the artist that draw the manwha and the illustrations in the novel mostly different 90% of the time
ohh i see now (⌒▽⌒)
Yeah. Usually they ask their good friends to make art cover for their novels (づ￣ ³￣)づ and when it gets popular, the studio will hire another artist for manhwa adaptation.
ik someone else already told you why but me too, i also always get so angry with these, and worse even when the promotion for the manhwa is like BADASS ART and then when the manhwa gets serialized its ASS ART
i cant be the only person whos starting believe some of these authors hire people to make their covers cause why am i always getting catfished LOL the cover artstyle is so different from the art style in the webtoons