Book WIP 2

Another book jacket for The Graveyard Book in progress. The boy is Nobody "Bod" Owens.

Graveyard Jackets WIP

Designing a book jacket for Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book. I've been really inspired by Dave McKeans illustrations for this and coincidently he did some of the illustrations for the Graveyard Book. I really love his images with ink sketches laid over textured backgrounds. That's what I had in mind for my jacket, but hmm... still trying to work it out. It's all been a complete experiment so far! I tried doing an acrylic textured background but it's too bright and 'loud' for the inked image. So now I've done a separate painting using bright food colouring and laid textures over that... but I'm still not sure about it. This is what I've got so far.. let's see how the rest goes.

Red Hair

a Sketch done for uni, photo from the internet used as reference.

Jedi Markers

a Jedi Concept done with pro markers.

Jedi Pencil Concept

Jedi concept for CG Hub

Dinosaur Book

For uni last year we were given titles to choose from in which we had to write and illustrate a children's book with. I chose "There's a Dinosaur in My Porridge" and this is the outcome. Some of the composition is 'flat' looking because the book was a pop up book. The pop ups were painted separately and stuck on after print. So I couldn't put them in digitally.

I hope the layout and size are okay to veiw.

Sketches

Some more sketches for uni. Used photos for reference.