Evaluation

Final

This is my final piece

Draft

Final Draft

This is my draft for my book cover, The idea I have come up with for my book is to have the 3 main characters of the book coming out of the ring with the main building as well going through the centre, so its not just empty also I am going to have the main good people's place on the left as that is where the main people our, and I am going to have the bad guys place on the right as thats were they are, on the back there is gonna be a big ring above the blurb and a hill range below the blurb

Emulation

My Emulation

When creating my emulation I used features of my copy to help me create it, for example I used the idea of patchy colours, I got this Idea Originally from my sherlock scamp also I used the idea of not much text and just a title, to create this emulation Took a picture of my friend in a hoodie, I then deleted all of the background so it was just his head I then made the background black and faded his face into this background, Then I added 'Adjustment Layers' to the picture of my friend, for example I used the 'Posterize Layer' to make his face look patchy, I also used a gradient to make him black and white and add in a bit of grey.

Copy 2

This is my copy

This is the original image compared to my creation (before I added the text)

Developing ideas for the ring

Creating the ring - Idea 1

To create the ring I used 'cinema 4D', I used cinema 4D because it is a good programme for making 3D objects and 3D text designs, to start with the ring I imported a tube from the 'Mo-Graph' tool section, then I changed the tubes rotation so I could get the best angle.

Then I went to the object properties tab and I changed the Inner radius to try and make the tube inner bit smaller so it looks like a ring, then I changed the cap segments to '1' so it created a more realistic for the ring.

Then I tried creating a colour material for the ring, To do this I used the 'Luminance' to give the ring a shiny colour, then I added a 'reflection' so it looked like a reflective gold.


Then I added the colour to the tube layer by dragging the colour to the tube. This is the ring with the colour un-rendered.

Then I rendered the image so the colour 'Luminance' would shine through, Then I imported the file to 'Photoshop' I will then add textures to the ring, to get these textures I will take pictures of gold things, and then clipping mask it to the ring and use the 'multiply' on blending options.

Contact sheet

This is my contact sheet of my first silhouette to create this silhouette I took a picture of someone in a crouch stance and i went round it with the 'pen tool' and I then Filled the area with a black fill I then added a Backpack to it and the light which features in the 'Lord of the rings' film.

Copy 1

This is the final copy

This is the copy next to the original

Then I noticed my drawing of the 'two towers' was to big so what I did is I got the 'lasso tool' and went round the bumpy hill bit and made a selection then copied it to a new layer and rubbed out a bit of the hill then I placed the bumpy hill bit lower down so it still looked like a hill

To get the write colours I used the 'dipper tool'
on the original image to get the write colour this makes the copy more accurate.









To create the towers I drew a outline of the towers, and then went over them in sharpie and put them in photoshop and filled it in with the 'fill tool'

To recreate the text I used the pen tool to create the outline of the text this took a couple of tries as I could not get the text correct, finally when I did I 'made a selection' and then I used the fill tool to fill my text selection then I merged each word after I had aligned it.

Scamps - My designs

Scamps

When creating my scamps, I got inspiration from Pinterest I found a trio of book covers for all 3 books, I took this design and try to expand on it the design was the ring about 3/4 of the way down the page, and it had buildings and people from the film coming out of this, the images of the ring and the people looked liked they were doe on a computer in a water colour way properly using texture on the images.

Book cover conventions

Mood Board

This is my mood board

This is my mood board i created to inspire me, for the font I am going to create.

Photos of subject matter

These our my photo's of subject matter

These our a collection of photos i took to get inspiration for my book cover of 'The Lord Of The Rings' I took my photo's based on the topic of elements which our 'water, fire, earth and air' so I took pictures of hills as in the books it starts in a hilly area, then they venture into big mountains.

Coloured scamps

These are my coloured scamps

 These are the images I copied

These are my original scamps 

Proposition/Ideas

Proposition

For this unit I will be creating a book cover for a book that is already out or a made up one, the ideas I have gathered from pinterest have given me the idea to create a book cover on the 'Lord of the rings' book's wrote by JRR Tolkien, I have chosen this book cover because of the unit having to be linked to elements this fantasy book can possibly contain all of them because you have the volcano and the waterfalls which I could use to link my book cover to the subject matter set.

The theme of the book is:

Fiction 
Fantasy 
Chivalric romance 
Adventure fiction 
High fantasy 

Speculative fiction

I found this image on Pinterest of a fan made lord of the rings book cover, and this has given me a basic idea of what I want to create, because I like the sort of water coloured digital imagery, that is used in this piece I also like the simple 'Layout' of the page 

                    

Pinterest Book/Comic Cover

Book cover ideas