Creating a book jacket is a combination of sketches, editorial input, marketing mojo, and designer execution. I'll start with thumbnail sketches like this:
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Progress to this:
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And it'll all come through the other side looking something like this:
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Yahoo! Welcome to the world Alex and Zina!
3 comments:
I think a LOT of those initial ideas are cool! Any chance a publisher will let you offer four different covers someday to stir up interest, the way certain magazines do nowadays?
If you're a luminary like Eric Carle (The Very Hungry Caterpillar etc.) certain publishers will let you redo the art for an entire book! How cool would that be to re-edition something with a new perspective 20+ years later :)
I LOVE seeing the creative process. So this particular post for me was a dose of morning eye candy. The book looks wonderful, thanks for sharing.
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