Final Book Cover

This is my final book cover design for the Wind in the Willows brief.

My last design using the badger character was my favorite out of all my ideas and was the one i wanted to use for the competition but i felt it lacked something in the background, so i went back to my first cover design and took elements from it that i loved and thought worked well such as the tree and my brush stokes for the river bank.
I think the whole thing works alot better and has given a bit more depth and colour to my original idea, and i am really peased with the outcome. 

The Wind in the Willows Book Cover Experiments

This was the first experiment i did, i like certain elements of it, like the tree and the colour palette iv used, but i just dont like everything together and i dont think it works and i think it looks as if its missing something on the front cover.



In these covers i wanted to try making them really simplistic and stripping them down to only using a few of my drawings and placing them on a white background. I think these work much better than trying to create a full scene.

I used acrylic ink in all of these drawings some are line drawings and some pressed ink, and I combined all the different elements using photoshop.

Badger

Badger is a character im really struggling with i couldnt get him right at all, so i tried the same technique as i did with the flowers and tried pressing the ink and these are the outcome, I think having less control of over the outcome has worked in my favour.

Mole

These are my experiments so far with the character mole!! The bottom image is my favorite and is the one working the best so far, he is a mix of ink drawing/press and water colour.

Toad

My drawings for the character Toad!!

^ I dont like this at all it looks a bit like kermit the frog!^ 

 

Flowers

Ink drawings ! 

Some experiments with colour too!! I created these flowers by putting drops of ink onto the paper and pressing them, i love the effect it gives and how the different colours merge together. 

The Wind In The Willows

The latest brief i am working on is a competion based brief for Penguin Books, The project is to create a book cover for The Wind In The Willows.

To start with i have created a sense of place board in my work space, i havent read the book yet, only a short overview of the story,so iv created my board purely around how i see The Wind In The Willows in my mind, and what colours, characters, settings i imagine there to be.

For now i am just playing with my sense of place ideas, but once i have read the book i will get more understanding of the setting, story and characters.