Project 2 - Book Covers

EDIT: So now they are all done, these are the final version of each.The Book is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The first cover re-dure is Horror, the second is Dystopian, and the third is Mystery. While the second and last one are simple and didn't take me long to make, it was the Horror one that took me a while, mostly I had to re-teach myself how to use meshes in Illustrator to get all kinds of cool stuff done. But it is by far the most advanced tool there is. But its also a major pain to use.

This is my Horror variant of Fahrenheit 451. The only thing I haven't gotten too is adding the highlights and shadows to the body of the character, other wise its done. I rather like, but I was also hoping ti would be darker. Yes I did it in CMYK, but this is exported in RGB, so the colors are a little off. The font I used is called Defused, its from the game : GRID. EDIT: This is the finished version.

Here is my take on Dystopian, well its pretty basic, high contrast, used a photo reference for the buildings, but it was all done with the pen and line tools. Added a splash of color for the title.  I thought to best get the idea of a hopeless future was to use stark colors, and the best color combo is still black, white, and red. The red font is from Gears of War, another game (notice a pattern here). EDIT: I added some vertical lines to help separate the parts of each area of the book jacket.

Here is is Mystery remake for the book. Yes that is still the Pyro from TF2 being used a device. So games again rule the day. I did notice the mystery covers have no one defining thread or even a common theme. So I sued a few ideas I found to make this one seem different than most I had seen, yet still feel like something you would see all the time. Yet at the same time it still fits the original premise of the books, mostly as there is lots of intrigue in the book.