Been a busy all day today, looking up videos for my illustrations, doing a few different covers for the Kelpies book. I have a lot of different variations. I'm just not too sure if any are really working. However I am so proud of them so far. I am still trying a few different techniques, Today I learnt how to make smoke in photoshop. Without using downloaded brushes. It isn't perfect, but it does the job and does enough for what I want it to. I still haven't played about too much with the text of the title. I do however really like the idea of the title being on the bullet. So I am unsure how this will pan out. There is still a few more designs I am wanting to attempt and see how they look. As the weapons might be a little much for 10-12 year olds. Will hopefully have more to show tomorrow.
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So, today I finally got started on my book cover. YAY! I am actually rather proud of it. I am just not too sure in which direction it is heading. But not half bad if I do say so myself. This is more of less just a first draft of one of my designs, I have a few more I'd like to experiment with and see how they go too.
On a separate note, I had previously mentioned about the survey I have created, to go towards my dissertation. If you haven't already, I'd really appreciate it if you took just one minute of your time to fill in. I also promise you it won't take you anymore than a minute to answer. It is just simply ticking boxes https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CFZ7G9T Thank you So today I haven't really done much. I have been more or less been trying to get my sketch books in more of an order, and up to date so I don't have to come back to it later on in the year. I have however started to make more of a progress with my Main Project. As my dissertation begins to loom nearer, I have realized I need more information to add to it. So please, it will take less than a minute to do and i would really appreciate it.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CFZ7G9T I hope to really get into designing my book cover tomorrow and begin to experiment with the layout and text. So I will be putting up my progress of them tomorrow, with more than likely a few screen shots. So today I went over the brief for the Kelpies competition today and finally got some sketches done. They are incredibly rough as you can see, but they are definitely progressing. I have also been watching a few spy movies while doing this project. Just to get myself into that mode. I hope tomorrow I will be able to develop these sketches further. Will update tomorrow. Sorry today's blog has been short. But I am still in the development stages
I have spent most of today researching for this new book cover competition I am doing for Kelpies. The cover is for "Hunt At The Hill Of The Red Fox MI5" So this book cover will be for 10-12 year old audience, and it's all about spies! Really looking forward to getting stuck in. the Book is set in the Cold War, I have had to brush up a little on my history. But yea, I haven't yet done any sketches for this. As I am currently just processing all the information I have gathered. With the likes of the designs of other Kelpies Illustrators, the cold war history as I mentioned before. And what other book cover about spies have done. These I am assuming are the first book illustrations. So to my understanding (As the company haven't given too much information) I am designing the sequel to this book. So this in it's self gives me a little more insight into how to design this. As well as looking at these covers and taking notes on what I like and dislike about each of them. I will hopefully have actual sketches to show you tomorrow on my initial ideas on what the hell I'm doing.
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