FALSE START 1
Brief: Illustrate 8 book covers in 5 days
The covers:
The covers:
Thumbnails - interconnecting covers
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FALSE START 2
new brief:
Illustrate 20 book covers in 4 days
"Children's Books that don't exist"
Illustrate 20 book covers in 4 days
"Children's Books that don't exist"
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Pencil sketching try to get the texture back.
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STARTING THE PROJECT
Project Type: Book cover illustration - "Children's Books that don't exist" and "Young Adult Books that don't exist"
Specifications: 300 dpi, full colour (CMYK), 10 books (including front cover, back cover and spine)
Timeframe: 1 week
Deliverables: 10 full spread illustrations, cover page/spine/back cover.
Audience: First set of books for children, second set of books for young adults.
Aims: To generate lots of ideas in a smalltime frame and see them through to completion - a "palette cleanser" brief.
Specifications: 300 dpi, full colour (CMYK), 10 books (including front cover, back cover and spine)
Timeframe: 1 week
Deliverables: 10 full spread illustrations, cover page/spine/back cover.
Audience: First set of books for children, second set of books for young adults.
Aims: To generate lots of ideas in a smalltime frame and see them through to completion - a "palette cleanser" brief.
Thumbnails for children's books
BOOK 1 :THE TIGER WHO ATE THE SUN
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BOOK 2: THE CHEETAH WHO COULD NOT SLEEP
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Clean up lines, add more light and shadows.
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BOOK 3: THE VERY GRUMPY BEAR
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BOOK 4: SUPER DOG
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Book 5: The Hungry Pelican
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Book 6
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Young Adult Books
Book 7
Darker colour palette - add contrast - consider typography
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Layout changes - align with a book - add spine, logos etc make beliveable
Mock-up
Book 8
Drawing the figure
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Testing different colours and layouts - Added door with key
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Fixed anatomy on arm, added blurb, corrected placement of publisher/title.
Mock-up
Book 9
Shapes and lighting
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Details and adjusting composition
Typography and colour
Mock-up
Book 10
Character
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Typography/layout - Sans Serif capitals typeface for cover - space out "Mothers" as the key word, serif font for blurb, smaller and dull.
Combining the two - overlapping, colour palettes, etc. (Closed character's eyes for a peaceful expression unlike the title).
Mmm crispy texture and warm
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Take out green tones - knock back the whites in the font - change characters jumper, recolour, add drawing in front of text
Mock-ups
Book 11
Less is more...?
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Single face or multiple figures? (Its "Children" so multiple makes sense)
Final Layout, added texture, colour corrected, and simplified objects - made the focal point more dynamic (mmm diagonal)
Mock-ups
Book 12
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Mock-ups
Logo for publisher
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