For this semester I had find or
design commercial briefs to work from. With the help of Jen in college I
was able to find some
past contests on 99Designs. As the contests had finished I could not enter
them but this particular brief appealed to
me as it's within the line of work I hope to go
into.
The Brief:
"I
want an ebook cover that, if possible, can also be used with Amazon's CreateSpace.
The title of the book is "The Adventures of Geraldine Woolkins,"
and the author is "Karin Kaufman."I'd prefer not to use a photo, at least as
the main element. Rather, I'd like an illustration of the book's main
character, a young female mouse. I'd
like the mouse to look detailed in a *realistic*
Beatrix Potter way, and I'd like her to be in a dark brown coat (not the same tone of brown as her fur). I'd also
prefer not to have a dark/ominous cover. Also, the stories in the book are set
from mid October to
late December -autumn leaves to winter snow.It's important to me that
the cover NOT look like a typical children's
"cartoony" cover. This book is really for adults to read to
children, and even to read themselves, so it can't have that pre-school look to it. Other than
that, feel free to be creative with everything else! Below I'm attaching
three covers that
strike me as interesting for the way they look -- more for their flavour
than anything specific in them (probably don’t
want a dark, nighttime cover as in the last
two illustrations)."
Before starting the actual layout
ideas I decided I wanted to try my hand at drawing a variety of
mice species to help me decide
which one best fit the story settings and themes.
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