Evaluation

Final Piece

Firstly I drew out my final design in pencil, and then once I was happy with it I went over the outlines in fine liner, and rubbed out the pencil marks.

Using the light box, I placed another piece of paper over the top of the final layout piece, so that the outlines showed through the top piece of paper. I painted within the outlines using watercolour.

I placed the outlined piece into photoshop, and edited it to be threshold (black and white only).

I then cropped the piece to be the correct size.

Using the magic wand tool, I selected the white and deleted.

This allows the coloured painting to show through, with the black outlines sitting on top.

At this point I added guidelines to help with the positioning of certain features later in the process. I then started editing the colours, so I turned off the black outlines, and starting with the sky. I selected the area I wanted to edit using the quick selection tool, and I edited the hue, saturation, lightness (command U). In this picture is shows my next colour edit of the bottom right flower.

Then I edited the levels of the lair to encourage more contrast.

I also edited the hue, saturation and lightness of the hair.

... I then edited the tower...

I did this process until I was happy with the final colours.

I then printed this piece, and using the light box, I drew the type on a separate piece of paper and fitted it around the design. I did one with fill so I could edit the colours.

I also copied the same font, but only the outline so the font could have a black outline like the actual design.

I placed both images into photoshop and edited them to be threshold, and deleted the white. I placed them on top of each other. I edited the colours of the filled type (magic wand, shift + backspace). I picked the colours from the design and made them analogous.

For the flap about the Brothers Grimm, I added a photo from a secondary source, but I wanted to add my own touch. Using outlines of the flowers, I duplicated them and placed them around the photo. 

I then duplicated the coloured part of the flower, and made it the same size and rotation to fit the black outline. Using (command U) I edited the colour.

I did this to the other flowers...

Until it was competed.

I then placed this in the top corner, on the flap.

I then added the heading of the flaps and the authors title using the font 'Elcsa'.

Then I added the quotes and blurb to the back cover using different alignments. I used the pen tool to create the bottom text box to work around the design. I used the font 'Little Days Alt'.

I then added the flap type, again creating the text boxes using the pen tool to work around the design.

I then added all institutional information; barcode, website, publishers.

To put the title on the spine, I individually edited each letter of the front cover title, so that it would fit the blurb.

The final piece printed.

The front cover.

The back cover.

The spine.

The flaps.

Final Draft

Case Study

Colour Choices

Monochromatic

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Print/Written Analysis

Further Drafting

Digital and Written Type

I have a mixture of written/calligraphy fonts and modern sans serif fonts. I feel either of these would match the book cover I am designing. Written fonts will make the book have a more traditional style cover and the modern fonts will give the book cover a modern and neat look.

I then included the different fonts into my emulation piece to compare the opposite types.

I feel the curly/traditional font suited the page better as it can be fitted around the design more effectively.

Emulation

Firstly I drew the outline of my emulation using pencil, and once I was happy with it I went over the outlines in fine liner.

Then using a light box and placing another piece of paper on top of the outlined piece, I coloured the page using watercolour paint, following the guidelines on the page underneath.

I then placed the outlined fine liner piece into photoshop, and editing it to be threshold (black and white only). 

Once I had done this, using the magic wand tool, I selected and deleted the white.

Then I placed the coloured piece into photoshop. I placed this layer underneath the fine liner layer so that the colour showed through the deleted white sections, leaving the black outline sitting on top of the coloured page.

Next was to edit the colours. I used 'Command U' to bring up the editing of the hue, saturation and lightness.

Some of the colours were more vibrant than others, therefore needed to be edited separately. I selected each section using the quick selection tool, then again using 'Command U' to edit the colours.

I did this again to edit the hair... a more saturated yellow with a slight cooler hue.

Also I did this to edit the sky, making it darker more saturated and again a slightly cooler hue.

I did this until I was happy with the outcome of the colour....

... and my emulation was complete