Category: Book cover Design – Ann Veronica-Design Development

Design Development: Ann Veronica

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I have finished the development for Book cover design number 2 which is Ann Veronica. This did not take me long at all to complete in comparison to the first design for The Time Machine. I think that this is because I am pretty much repeating the first design for the second and third and not as much development has to go into it. With this book cover design I had the idea in my head and then from that idea I drew what I have now and then pretty much repeated what I did for the first design.

I decided to draw the pirate flag coming out of the jar with the frog in and this is what I ended up with;

I then did the same as what I did for my first book cover design and alter the colours in Photoshop. The colour scheme for this book cover is Green, that matches the frog and the colour of the liquid in the bottle.

This is a mock up of both covers side by side so far;

I think that they both work really well together, the contrast between the Black and White and the pop of colour. They work together well as a set also – It is clear that they all belong together and that there is repetition and a link between the designs.

Design Development – Ann Veronica

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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.