November 29, 2011

Designing a book-jacket

One of my favouite authors....if not THE FAVOURITE author, Mr.Paulo Coehlo wrote a book called " The Devil and Miss Prym". It is a novel of temptation, greed, fear and cowardice and the main characters indecisiveness about her choice to be good or evil? The color of greed is green, it would be a strong green if it is a confident choice in beeing greedy, but miss Prym in this book reflects and contemplates and cannot make up her mind at first, hence why i chose to go with more muted tints of green and yellowish green for the base color. I created my own illustration in the same mood, with muted tones and lots of greenish variations in color to communicate the same indecisiveness. And the misty weather in the illustration shows the " fog" in her mind. For the title i chose a sans-serif font and a script font. At first i recieved critic for the mixing these two fonts togheter, but i stuck with it. The reason being that i love the movement in the script font. It shows something in motion, something that is fast....like the main characters thoughts tha are keeping her sleeless at night. I am happy with this book jacket, and hopefully i will create more in the future for myself and others. This is fun. If you havent read this book, go ahead and read it... if you havent read any of Paulo Coelhos books, i suggest you introduce yourself to his first masterpiece: "The Alchemist". Great,
great saga that! Thank you for taking a look at my blogg.

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