What a Pretty Mess
Process: November 2018
Drawing from our exercises in-class and in labs, use the following image manipulation techniques, and any others you feel are applicable, to create a series of 8 cover art mock-ups for your book.
When choosing images for my cover, I tried to use the pictures that were the most neutral so that I could tie back in the pink/mauve that I used throughout the inside of the book. I wanted to use the techniques that seemed the most relevant to my book. For example, double exposure wouldn't have worked too well for me, because I think it looks best with people as subjects, but all of my images were of inanimate objects. I was pretty hesitant on the rgb color shifting, just because I wan't sure how well it would go with the inside of my book, but I think it ended up looking pretty cool. I also did a play on the exquisite corpse, but instead of using a person, I used my teddy bear, which was also on a page in the book. Then I did pixel art, but I figured out if you place an actual sized image into a 72 pixel x 72 pixel canvas, it will obviously turn the picture into it's own pixel image! I like the one with the bear the most, because the one with my medals and ribbons looks a little forced, especially with the colors. I liked how most of them turned out, and those ones are definite contenders for the cover of the book.
my top three
the other five
