Sick Work

So, still feeling super ill today. But I just curled myself around my laptop and sketch books and made myself do work.
I actually got a lot done today!  So I have two new book covers that I started working on today. I am still not too sure on either, but  I have now realized with the deadline looming. It is perhaps  time to  look at the ones I already have a choose one or two and develop  it further. So here are the two newest editions of my book covers:

So as I had discussed yesterday, I had tried to recreate  the same style of image as the Star Wars posters.  I did this to the image on the left, I don't really feel that this worked. I even added textures to make it look more like rocks and wilderness.  The book is based on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. So I looked up lots of photos in hope of seeing lots of forests and things to create a similar branch effect to create a type of inception image.  But no, just lots of mountains and  wild flowers :

isle of skye 

So, as you can see just a lot of rough rocks and cliffs.  Although I tried to recreate this landscape within my book cover I really don't think it worked.  So I looked at all my previous book covers and thought, well what do I like about these? I then went back and created the image on the right.  Of  just a spy, It is definitely  a lot simpler. than the image on the left. 

I also started doing a little more of my designing of a deck of cards. I looked up royal families from around the globe. Looking at the costumes,  uniforms, jewelry and of course crowns and tiara's. I came across this photos. The only thing that was said about them was these are photos from a party. I don't know what year, or place. but the costumes and amazing looking.