From the tutorial I had with Ian I started to develop the particular idea further to explore different outcomes and placements of particular aspects within the drawing to show variation of them. This will help me see what will work and what wont as a whole, and to see then transfer these hand rendered ideas digitally to see the full picture of what it will look like.
I have created digitally rendered illustration type background using the app sketchpad on my Ipad, I wanted to create a light and dark atmosphere between Williams mother and Mr tom showcasing a story and depth. From doing this I can see what aspects of the designs work and from this I can see the first idea doesn’t work as well as the second idea, the second idea I would find hard to place the required texts from Penguin as the background are too busy and quite clustered, and the second one is a lot more spacious with where I am able to place the required texts. I have placed a link below of this in the book cover template, the typeface changed for some reason.
I create another quick sketch and developed it digitally Illustrator to explore the different design aesthetics I could experiment with.
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