After a tutorial with my tutor about this project, it was pointed out to me that this design ( taken from one f my design sheets ) had a lot more impact then the design i had settled on before, i hesitated to pursue this idea because i thought it might be slightly too vulgar, but visually it is a lot less complex and fussy than the illuminated books inspired design.
This is the image i ended up using for the book cover template, i painted the design onto acrylic paper and drew the lettering by hand, i regretted doing this later because i feel the free hand lettering is messy and unappealing, luckily i worked out a way to edit these parts out and overlay the new text on Photoshop .
I wanted the back of the book to tie in with the front cover so i used to same paint to create a splash of colour and then simply drew a small orange in the bottom right hand corner, i really wanted this design to be simple and understated, but also bold and eye catching, i feel like i did my best with this concept but in retrospect i could have developed it more, perhaps simply drawing the main illustration on the front cover rather than painting might have given it more impact and a crisper line.
Below are variants of my final book cover design, set to the specified template given by penguin, the one i will go with as my final piece is the very last image, i have chosen this one because the actually illustration is cropped better then the others and i also fixed the bad hand-drawn lettering at the bottom of the page, i am pleased with my final design, considering the amount of difficulty i have had trying to narrow down my ideas for this brief.
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