Evaluation

Final Piece

This is my finished final piece.

Final Draft

This is my final draft, it is a slightly simpler unrefined version of my final piece. It gives a good idea of what my final is but hasn't been polished with better details.

Drafting

 At first, I started with the idea of a map an it then moved on to having other photos over the top so I came up with the idea of making my book cover a map, with different paintings ( such as mountains,  forests, and certain iconography from the book) scattered over it loosely so it looked like the top of a messy desk.

And this was going to be my design

 But I drew some of the smaller paintings for it I saw that the mountains I drew could be the entire cover, with a massive mountain range rolling across the background. I thought it would work better as the graphic because it was more in the background and let the name stand out.

I drew a few ideas for the mountains and came up with a rough, rough draft, which is the bottom picture.

Print Analysis

C.R.A.P. Analysis

Colour choices

 For my Monochromatic pice, I made it in a sketchy style with a hand drawn title and other parts. I sketched a mountain range for the background from a part of Wales I was in and I added my handwritten title in.

For my triadic, I used purple, orange and green. I used the green for the main part of the mountains as that's realistic and added a strong contrast by shading the darker areas with an orange. The sky I made light purple and I think it works well as it keeps in the background allowing the mountains to come more to the front.

On the complimentary, I decided to go for a more obscure  colour on the mountains with a normal colour sky. The cover stands out and is bright but I feel that it wouldn't represent the book that well as it's too indicative of the desert.

This is the analogous colour scheme, I feel like it worked well. I used green based colours with a turquoise for the sky. The different shades of green allowed me to shade the mountains well making them look more 3D and stand out better than they otherwise would.