Front Cover

Front and Back Cover designs

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This is the first front cover I created, blocking out my title and main character positions.

I hated it.

Front Cover Devel 4

 

I wanted my title to be bigger, more obvious and more interesting, so I came up with this:

front cover update

 

Much better! However I wanted it to appear so that the Bee was leaning on the text and that is why it is slanted, so I altered my little character a little.

front cover update 2

 

My next thought was adding colour so I experimented with a few:

My favourite was the blue colour, however I still wasn’t thrilled with the design but I had hit a block and couldn’t think of any genius ideas. I decided to move on to my back cover whilst I think.

back cov

My back cover design came straight to me and I loved it. Not what I had planned in my storyboard but much better. The small details of the bees does not take the distraction away from the synopsis in the centre.

I then decided the small bees could be a theme and run on my front and back cover, which ultimately will be adding detail to my front cover and not look like too much.

font cov

 

I think I still need to spend some time playing around with the angles and positions of the bees however this design is much better than my original.

Front Cover Development

Francesca Hannah Veal Development, Experiments, Project Four , , ,

I have began working on my front cover, following my plan ideas in my storyboard.

I began with my central image of my main character. I have chosen this bee sketch that i scanned in.

Front Cover Devel 1

I removed the white from the background, duplicated the layer and flipped the layer horizontally to make the left side of the body.

Front Cover Devel 2

The outline needed a thin layer over the top to make it stand out more, and then I began colouring in the body on a layer underneath the outline – as shown in my workshop.

Front Cover Devel 3

 

I then placed in my title (temporary font and colour until I have decided on my type) and a shadow underneath the bee. I like the simplicity of my front cover at the moment and I think the plain white background is working better than a block colour, however I may add a faded background like I did for my first page but a green colour for the floor rather than blue for the sky.

Front Cover Devel 4