Mock ups / Graphics

After Looking  into a selection of fonts to use for my book cover i thought it would be handy to make some mock ups from my sketches to decide what design i want to go for as at this point i was divided on what design i wanted to go for, so i decided to create mock ups for a few of my personal favorite ideas.

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This graphics above are some of the early mock ups i created for my cover of The Outsiders. The 1st mock up was one of my early ideas i had sketched out which is a bottle knocked down with the cola leaking out or even blood. I wanted to play with contrast which is why i chose these colours and i think the red blood helps to convey the violence and rebellion themes that are contained within the story of the book.

The 2nd example is another i sketched out originally where Ponyboy is holding a half broken bottle to use it as a weapon and the other graphic of the broken bottle is experimenting with the angle from my previous idea and adding a cream fill as well as it being broken instead to see what looks better.

The 3rd example is another idea i decided to create as a mock up which was originally an idea i had sketched of Ponyboy as him as a silhouette, smoking as he is watching the sunset, but because i wasn't strong on this idea as much as i liked it i had other ideas to pursue more so i just left it at the moment as the silhouette.

My 4th mock up is similar to the 1st one as it was designed similarly but the difference with the angle and it being a broken bottle with the blood leaking out rather than the bottle being just knocked over and leaking blood. At the time if i was going to with the bottle and blood idea i was unsure if i wanted the bottle to be broken or just be knocked over which is why i created multiple mock ups of this idea so i could come to content to which one i wanted to go for if i decided to go for this idea as my book cover design.

After creating a few graphics for my design ideas i then went onto create proper mock up book cover designs to see what some of my ideas would look like. This idea i was very strong about with multiple doodled patterned images from the story i.e. knives, cola bottles, popcorn, bottle cap, gun, cigarette etc and because i wanted to go for a colour scheme with black, reds, and blues/greens i wanted to mix the colours with the patterns to look visually pleasing.

The use of torn out paper to add a very scruffy look to the story and to emphasise rebellion and the fact that some of the characters still go to school and are in a very gritty, lower class place and getting involved in gangs and crime and violence. The doodled drawing patterns also adds to the torn out paper and adds a informal look to it. The use of the doodled images would help to give someone an idea of what the story i about if they saw this design on the shelf, so it helps to relate to the themes and story of the book.

The typography for the main title and author is from one of the type faces i found online that i thought that works really well with the the type of book this is, its called 'Slab Thing' and is a slab serif and it works really nicely as its bold and strong, but not too formal and has a sense of rebellion and a scruffy feel to it which is what i wanted to go for.

On the back cover is a torn out piece of paper which would be where the blurb goes and fits in with the theme of the book cover. Overall i really like this design and potentially might go for it as my main design for the cover I'll create, however this is a mock up and not a final design so there might be more changes from this and the final design if i choose to go for this design.

This was another book design i created as a mock up and is the idea of the bottle with blood. In this mock up I've used the same type face as the previous one as it was the font i wanted to go for in my final design as its bold and effective and works well with the theme of the book.

At the time i didn't know how i wanted to display the knocked over cola bottle with the blood, so i tired a few different places and this is one place where its all on the main cover and isn't in the way of anything else. As for the back cover i knew i wanted the pool of blood to be the blurb box but didn't know what else to do to the back cover so i thought it would be a good idea to make the angle different on the back cover and have the broken bottle on each end of the blood leaking out as it then let me use the broken bottle idea and the knocked over bottle idea. However i still am experimenting withe the all of these designs as they are only mock ups and not final designs and in the end I've got to choose a final design to go with and that i feel is the strongest out of all of the designs and ideas I've came up with.