Book Covers

The last few weeks I have been putting my images together as book covers.
I am really happy with them now but it has been hard work getting all the measurements right
to fit the books I brought to cover them with.

But fingers crossed they work and I get good feed back for them.

 I have two book cover ideas for this book so i need to get some feed back on with one works best.

Once I have decided on which cover to go with my next job is to design the end papers.

For this I want to use a mixture of all the images arranged haphazard on the page.

Final front cover designs........maybe

I have decided on the front cover designs for the book covers. They may change again but at the moment I am sticking with these. I want the covers to look the same and look like they belong together as a set.

These six are my favourites so far. I may add more if I have time at the end of the project.
Now we have to start thinking about what we want up in the final show and how we will display our work.

These are some examples I have found but I think I like the idea of having the books mounted on the wall and stuck together so you cant open them ? And maybe larger images up also.

Pig Blood Blues

I have been working on an image for the story, Pig Blood Blues, again. I think I am now steering towards this new image? It is painted in water colour onto card board using photoshop.
After I have finalised my images I will put them into a book cover format to see how they would work if published.

Pig Blood Blues.

From the day I read this story I had a set image in my head and have not
away from this really at all.
In this story there is a pig that eats one of the criminal boys from the correction facility the pig is kept on.The other boys think the boys spirit has taken over the pig and it goes on a kind of murderous rampage.

I wanted to show the criminal boy in the evil pigs stomach.

But then I saw this on a t-shirt.

 And the image progressed to this. I will try printing with the lino too.