Final Illustration for 'To Kill A Mockingbird'
To end this project on book covers, I have created 2 book covers for 'Penguin Books' on ' To Kill A Mockingbird,' one is digitally done, and the other is hand-rendered, using inks, pens and paints.
My first Illustrated book cover was a digital copy, using photoshop and the elects on the programme provided. The reason I used the 'dripped blood' was because while reading about the story and the court case, I thought about the year it was set (1960) so I wanted to keep the simplistic Black and White colours, to highlight the fact the movie as well as the book is more vintage than up to date.
I created this piece in photoshop using the paint tool to drip the blood (background) down 3/4 of the page. I then thought about what would be my main Illustration on the front. At first I wanted the blood to drip from the mockingbird, but thought this would take away the main Illustration of the cover as the background is already dripping.
I then sketched up a rough drawing of a mockingbird, scanned in the image, and then proceeded to draw around the Mockingbird with dark colours. The reason I used a dark colour for the mocking bird was because I felt having the Mockingbird almost blend in with the background would make it look mysterious, as if there was another story behind the scenes, although I used a dark colour (grey) I didn't want to use black, so the line of the Mockingbird and branch was still visible.
I used a Calligraphy font for the title of the book because I wanted the font to flow like the dripping background, but also keep it slightly subtle like the Mockingbird itself.
My second Illustrated book cover was a hand-rendered version, using inks, pens and paints. To create this cover I first took blue and purple inks, dripped them from the top of the page until they reached the bottom, I continued to do this a few times to make it look like the ink was dripping from inside the book.
My first Illustrated book cover was a digital copy, using photoshop and the elects on the programme provided. The reason I used the 'dripped blood' was because while reading about the story and the court case, I thought about the year it was set (1960) so I wanted to keep the simplistic Black and White colours, to highlight the fact the movie as well as the book is more vintage than up to date.
I created this piece in photoshop using the paint tool to drip the blood (background) down 3/4 of the page. I then thought about what would be my main Illustration on the front. At first I wanted the blood to drip from the mockingbird, but thought this would take away the main Illustration of the cover as the background is already dripping.
I then sketched up a rough drawing of a mockingbird, scanned in the image, and then proceeded to draw around the Mockingbird with dark colours. The reason I used a dark colour for the mocking bird was because I felt having the Mockingbird almost blend in with the background would make it look mysterious, as if there was another story behind the scenes, although I used a dark colour (grey) I didn't want to use black, so the line of the Mockingbird and branch was still visible.
I used a Calligraphy font for the title of the book because I wanted the font to flow like the dripping background, but also keep it slightly subtle like the Mockingbird itself.
My second Illustrated book cover was a hand-rendered version, using inks, pens and paints. To create this cover I first took blue and purple inks, dripped them from the top of the page until they reached the bottom, I continued to do this a few times to make it look like the ink was dripping from inside the book.
The full movie is in the link below (YouTube)
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