I've really playing with composition here. After initial thumbnailing i found it more effective to chalk straight on to paper. With some then rough ideas, I knew what elements I wanted to include (atronaut, dog, stars etc). I made some chalk drawings of these until I found the right one.
Some key initial feedback:
- Look at childrens drawings. It's actually really difficult for an adult to draw in the 'style' of a 5-10 year old child. Children have a free, loose sort of way of percieving the world, not dithering over accurate proportion. I did think about this, but evenso my astronaut still looks 'too accurate' to begin with.
- The text needs to stand out. The first drafts were roasted for eing too distracting. The text and title were lost. One person commented that when they go to look for a book, the title needs to be the first thing the reader notices, or at least the next readable thing on the cover. I did think about making the text colour, but that wasn't quite enough - i continued adapting the layout.
- One thing i'm hearing from every person for feedback, is they feel they cannot give useful feedback for not reading the book. I am coming to realise that this is irrelevant and actually TO the point - someone pickng this up in the bookshop won't have read it and that IS the point, it needs to appeal and entice people to read it in the first place
04/02/19
so today ive pretty much exhausted this cover.... please attack this with all your judgement
i wasnt convinced on the quality of GIMP, indeed spending this day in uni to knock it up with all the original scans was well worth the effort (and long day it turns out).
its time to hibernate on this and refine anything later before the deadline.
Penguin competition here we come!
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