I have narrowed my ideas from the five roughs to two, both of which I want to try out. The first is a practical, more straightforward idea and the second is very conceptual and 'fine arty' and I'm going to do it mainly because I think it's a bit funny.
Idea 1
My first idea for a final book cover originates, again, from the ideas of evolution and primitive instincts I talked about in a previous post, but takes perhaps a more literal approach. I will be using neolithic/ cave painting style imagery, depicting two figures (one attacking the other with a spear) on the front cover and a speared wild animal on the back cover (I still need to refine the drawing for that).
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| Essentially, this will be the layout of my book jacket, although I will change the drawing of the bull/ bison because it isn't working at the moment. I'm thinking I might take a much more simple route and just draw one on it's back with it's legs in the air. |
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This layout is one I decided against as it didn't really work once the cover was folded around the book, however, the line quality is much more what I'm after in this image. For the layout pictured above I think the ink I used must have been watered down accidentally or something because I couldn't achieve the scratchy, dry brush marks like I wanted to. But when I did this rough I used ink that did give me that effect.
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| This was just a quick experiment where I messed around with the very crude photo editing on my phone (what I took the picture on). It's an extreme edit setting called 'lines' and one I would never usually consider using but I do feel it works quite nicely with this image. I still think I prefer the texture and line quality of dry brush though and will probably stick to something in that vein as opposed to this. Still, I do think it works nicely. |
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