#book cover design
Random post but I’ve been doing some cool stuff for my portfolio. Hope you like it ❤️
We Have Always Lived in This Castle Cover Mock-Up
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[Image ID: An Illustrated book cover with the back on the left and the front on the right.
The Left side features a silver sugar bowl in the left corner with three silver dollars next to it and a golden watch chain with tight links in the right corner next to it is a large black book with a hole in the center. Over the book is a barcode with mock publisher information. The the Center of these objects is text that reads: “My Name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf. because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.” Under these images is a wooden looking background.
In the middle is part of the black book and a gradient into a tree with the text: ‘We Have Always Lived in this Castle’ and ‘Shirley Jackson.’
The left side has a rectangular house. In the middle of the house is a section built outwards which has a small roof, a window with a silhouette of Merricat in it between the blue curtains with a gold-purple color in the background. Under the window is a porch with two columns with a brown door in between it. There are steps in front of the porch. On the top window to the right of Merricat is a silhouette of Constance shutting the curtains. In the back portion of the house are two windows on either side of the middle section, with the far window having a rectangular awning. Under these windows is a large rectangular window with shutters on each side of the house, It has dark yellow curtains that are mostly closed. On the far right side are two more windows. At the top of the house is a black roof with five chimneys with varying heights. Two are on the left side of the house and three are on the right side.
There are yellow reflections of the windows on the lawn and text that reads: ‘We Have Always Lived in This Castle.’ The lawn has a gradient that goes from grey-brown into green into navy blue.
In the bottom of the left side is a barbed fence, with three posts and a black cat’s tail over the far right post. In between the wires is text that reads: ‘Shirley Jackson.’
In the background there are several dark green trees, the moon, and the sky is violet. end ID]
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Drunk Tank Pink is a book about how everyday sensory input can cause unexpected and subconscious reactions in the brain. The title refers to a particular shade of bright pink that was used to paint the walls of police station holding cells, in order to subdue and weaken drunk and violent prisoners.
Art direction by Andrea D’Cruz at Oneworld Publications
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And some of the initial sketches:
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