Book Cover Research
Book Cover Draft Examples:
Typography Research
Initial Plan
Mood Board
Typography drafts.
Book Cover Drafts
Coloured Drafts.
Final Design:
Chosen Book Cover: Departure of Nature, Draft 2
Why I have chosen this cover: My chosen theme is ‘State’. With this book cover draft, I think it fits the theme in a way to show how states can be harmful to nature. In addition, this can also be linked back to my RIOT topic in Fine Art. See my Fine Art Blog Entry.
For the final design, I decided to use Procreate on my iPad because then I can work on it in my own time during Half Term and won’t have to worry about limitations.
After tracing over the design digitally, I went over the title words with different fonts to make the design stand out a bit more.
Unfortunately, one of the problems I encountered while tracing and colouring in the design was that I can’t add colour to the piece on a separate layer unless it is on the same layer as the drawing. And I can’t add shading and lighting without back tracking to before I added the colours and fonts. Therefore, I’ve decided to try and use Photoshop to help speed things along without back tracking.
After showing my teacher the work, I had to go back and add in shading and lighting to make it stand out because the piece itself was too flat, and looking at both of them before and after, I see his point. Instead of using Photoshop this time, I did the Shading & Lighting in Procreate.
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