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.