I finished off my first design drawing of the skull inside the botanical bottle and the 2 white dead flowers out of the top.

I am very pleased with how it looks! (and it looks quite nice on my insta feed! ;p)

However!…… I feel like I am diverting away from the purpose of the book (with my pure shock at how decent this actually looks after so long not drawing!!) – I feel like it is lacking the “time” element… The whole purpose of the image on the cover is to give a snippet of what the book is about, at the moment it could be about anything! The bottle could be seen as a normal vase so it’s not as though the science part I am trying to portray gives it away!

I thought back to the hourglass timer idea I had in my sketchbook and began to think about how I could bring that back into my designs..

I scoured Pinterest (see below!) I wanted an hourglass timer but a broken one; I wanted the flowers to protrude out of the broken glass. The Middle tattoo on the link below is the one that gave me the idea for my next drawing.. I could turn the bottle on my present drawing into the bottom broken half of an hourglass timer.

The drawing would then have the “time” element, the cannibalism story of the Morlochs with the skull and the 2 white flowers which symbolise that the time travel happened and represents the love from Weena.

This is what I have so far!…