Monday, February 24, 2014



Here are all three of my Harry Potter Book illustrations. The first one being Sci/Fi Dystopia, Next one being Horror, and the last one being a sports novel. I had to start my entire project over from scratch because I could not get my ideas to work right on screen. it always ended up looking way too cartoony. That's not to say that these don't but compared to what I had at first these blow my first cover designs out of the water.

1st one Dystopia: I don't like repeating stuff much but I did take the Death Eater symbol from the Horror cover and illustrated it to be the main focus in this one. The key is the Design of the snake. There is a silhouette of a battered city in the snakes pattern. Other than that however its hard to tell its genre. I did try my best though.
2nd one Horror: The mask took a while to make but curves were made to perfection with the pen tool in illustrator. I added the eye and it creeped me out so I kept of course. It looks like an alien is behind the mask.
3rd one Sports: This one is pretty straight forward. I like that little annotation and tried to come up with a really cliche sports catch phrase. Like giving %110, all day everyday, all work no play or something like that but decided to stick with this. I like this for its simplicity .

15 comments:

  1. these are pretty nice i think i like the second one best but i LOVE that snake design.

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  2. I like the horror element of the second cover. Even though this book was created for young adults, there are some very mature themes in the series.

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  3. Great job with ideas. Sport one looks great!

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  4. All three book covers are very solid and excellent ideas. Work is creative and intriguing. They have a very finished look to them. Great job.

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  5. Very cool! The first one I think works really well, I like the texture in the snake, it looks like destroyed buildings! Well done!

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  6. I like what you did with the colors in the covers they work well together and the images are nicely done. :)

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  7. Nice take on Harry Potter! I like the quiddich cup version because it's really simple but still looks great.

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  8. Wow super job these look amazing, they truly could be on a book shelf in a store somewhere, great imagery, very professional all three genres two thumbs up..

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  9. I like the first one the best. I like how the city is silhouetted on the snakes body.

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  10. I like the first one the best because it is almost like a stamped emblem or logo. It also has a lot of detail within the snake, such as the silhouette.

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  11. All three look amazing, I like the middle one the best. Which HP book is it though.

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  12. These are well done, the techniques are great and the colors are too, they fit the style and theme of the books really well.

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  13. Great job on all three! I love how dark a creepy the second one is.

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  14. They are all great I especially like the last one because of the motion blur.

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  15. I like all three but I feel you suffer from bad fonts, and slightly missed ideas. While I feel your dystopic one works, I don't get that air of it all when you use the word "Magic" on the cover, never reads well in sci-fi settings. The horror one works a little better, but again watch what you say, "Government" works better than "Ministry". The sports one is good, but it seems the wings are not lined up, also Which Harry Potter book is this? no clue.

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