Final Photos of Book Cover

To present my final piece in a professional way I printed off the book cover. This was so i could take pictures of it and capture the details from every angle. It was also nice to be able to hold the final product and see the result up close.

Front Cover 

Spine

Back Cover

Left Dust Cover

Right Dust Cover

Whole Book Cover Spread Out

Evaluation/ Working Progress of Book Cover

Final Piece

Final Book Cover

Left Dust Cover

Back Cover

Spine

Front Cover

Right Dust Cover

Further Drafting

To further my final drafts I added colour and finalised the front covers. I included the name of the book, the drawings I have created for it, the main graphic detail for front. Below the drafts I included what the background will consist of, experimented with type and the main shape choices in which the title will be presented on.

Colour Scheme

Shown below is my working progress sketch for the colour scheme. Here is the first sketch of the drawing which I scanned into Photoshop to add colour. I gained inspiration for this drawing from looking at pinterest and fantasy drawings

Work in progress

I created the colour scheme pieces in Photoshop as shown below. Here is a screenshot of the Analogous piece being created.

Monochromatic

I used the colour green for my monochromatic as I thought this would relate to my gardening theme. This is were you choose one colour and use any shade from that one colour, being to extremely dark green to the lightest shade. Monochromatic is where you choose one colour from the colour wheel and use colours from that one colour.

Analogous

I used the colours purple, pink and a hot pink for my analogue colour scheme as these colours would suit the fantasy and feminine theme of the picture. Also I thought these three colours suited each other really well. Analogous is where you select three colours on the colour wheel next to each other/ in a row, and can use any shade out of that colour.

Triadic

I used the colours mustard yellow, pink and a mint green for my triadic colour scheme as these colours work really well together and create a lovely picture when using the lighter shades  Also I thought these three colours suited the gardening/ fantasy theme. You can use any shade from that a colour, being to extremely dark green to the lightest shade. Triadic is where you select three colours on the colour wheel that are opposite each other.

Complimentary

I used the colours orange and sky blue for my complimentary colour scheme as these colours work really well together as the different shades blend in and are easy on the eye. You can use any shade from a colour, being to extremely dark green to the lightest shade. Complimentary is where you select two colours on the colour wheel that are opposite each other.

Contact Sheet

My intentions of the shoot were to capture elements of my garden so to obtain inspiration for my cover.  As on the cover of my book I am having a variety of hand drawn elements which are associated with gardening – e.g. garden gnomes, animals, gardening tools, plants etc. So going around my garden and capturing wildlife, tools and plants helped obtain ideas of what I should draw. 

 The successful parts for the shoot was that the pictures were of good quality and focus, had interesting choices of subject matter and had different angles and depths of field.
However the unsuccessful elements were that I was unable to capture a variety of animals, as it was winter/spring when I took them so very little wildlife was available.
 If I were to take these images again I would include images of more insects, animals and so that It related more to gardening and that I had more inspiration of what to draw.

Overall I included a wide variety of subject matter and provided a set of good quality photos, so I therefore do not feel the need to take any more photos as I am happy with the ones I have and have obtained ideas for my bookcover.

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