This is my printout for the critique. I spent most my time this week and the front cover and right flap. I really like how they turned out, but there still much fine tuning I need to do. It has been really fun to play around with photoshops tools and the different textures and illusions you can create. The back cover needs a lot of work, but I have a good idea where I want to go with it. I maybe want to get a different picture so the watch is more prominent and then burn the rest the tree around it. I want the summery to be on the left flap. The only thing I'm really unsure of is how to get a cohesive text to go with the mood of the book.

Pictures

This is a layout I played around with. It needs a lot of work, but it was good to finally start working in photoshop. I still need to work with the typography, but I have a good idea where I want to go with it.

sketches and ideas

I started to think of some ideas for a book cover and the one that I thought would be most interesting would be To Kill a Mockingbird. I read it a long time ago, but I remember the storyline being really intriguing. All the original covers include a tree of some sort, and I liked the idea. However, I really wanted to come up with something original. SoI have some trees with some of the objects the main characters find in the tree. I also really liked the idea of a the guy who dies having a leaf over his mouth representing that he's dying with the truth.

Final Pictograms

I like the way that my pictograms turned out. I decided to try and add some color by incorporating it into the plates. Once they were printed out the colors were a lot darker and the fish and magenta blended in a lot. I added some scales to the fish which I thought was added to it a lot. I also added some dots on the chicken for some texture as well. Overall I think they turned out quite well.

This is my printout for my icons. I think I spent the most time on the ham icon and it's my strongest one. I need to add some details to the fish and chicken. Also I need some definitions with the fish and chicken so they pop out more. I think they turned out really well I just need to fix them up a bit.

My roughs look really similar to my sketches, but I was able to come to one idea. I decided to do the meat, because they have more of a clear use for the icons.

Collage

Making this collage was a really good for me. It helped to get me comfortable with illustrator more, and helped me to be a little more confident with the program as well. Overall I think it turned out great!