After a long break away from this exercise I have decided to get back into it and draw up a potential design for the Ann Veronica book cover.

As I said from my research I wanted to incorporate the preserved frog she keeps in a jar in her room as part of the design.

Last night during a personal life mental break down (another 2020 nightmare dating story and idiot boy I’ll save for one of my posters!.. *eyeroll) I decided to draw up the first potential version of this.

So far I do not like it as much as my first design – However this could be due to the fact that I have not yet added enough shading and pen work. I think that by the time it is edited in Photoshop it could look potentially good.

I also want to incorporate the Pirate theme within it; In the book Ann Veronica wants to go to a Pirate fancy dress party that her Dad greatly disapproves of and tries to make her not attend, this is the basis for the rest of the story; to rebel against the expectation that was put on women of their era.

I thought about putting a pirate flag inside the jar… so that the design is similar to the first one with the dead flowers coming out of the top. I think that this is what I shall work on next.