Book cover number 3!
This is now the third book cover I have designed and illustrated for Gavin Oattes. We looked at a variety of approaches for this before ending up with our final design and colour palette.
Chapter Illustrations
I’m lucky enough to get the manuscript in its early stages to get an idea of what each chapter is about and then distil this down to a singular image. All images are drawn and then refined to create vector artwork.
Working up ideas…
Although the final design looks quite simple in its execution, getting to that point takes time. Here is a selection of early drafts and iterations that led to the final selected design.