These images are part of a range of graphics for a fish and chip shop.
spuds and staffies
I know it is a bit cheesy doing faux stencil and splatter images, but digital art is usually the quicker and simpler way to do a freelance illustration gig. The customer wanted grungy street art styled images so I created vector images which look like hand painted stencil art.
These images are part of a range of graphics for a fish and chip shop.
These images are part of a range of graphics for a fish and chip shop.
book cover illustration for The Artemis Effect
A little while ago I was asked if I was interested in designing a cover for an ebook.
The book is The Artemis Effect by author Kasia James. It is a character driven story set in the near future, and follows the adventures of three people in different countries who must survive a world-wide collapse of communications, technology and society.
How could I say no?
We all know a cover isn't just a pretty picture with some text - it is one of a book's most important promotional assets. So I read the book, then the author and I had a number of discussions. Based on these discussions I presented a selection of rough concept drafts before we settled on one, which was then worked into final art.
Our priorities were to
I could go on about all the careful cover design choices made, but actually I don't want people to see a bunch of design decisions, I simply want people to think "Yeah, characters I can identify with dealing with an end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenario... this book is for me!"
Do you think we succeeded?
You can buy The Artemis Effect here (Kindle edition)
You can find Kasia James' blog here
The book is The Artemis Effect by author Kasia James. It is a character driven story set in the near future, and follows the adventures of three people in different countries who must survive a world-wide collapse of communications, technology and society.
How could I say no?
Our priorities were to
- indicate something of the story's content, style and genre
- create a design which communicates to the right audience
- for the title and author's name to be very clear, even when previewed at tiny sizes
I could go on about all the careful cover design choices made, but actually I don't want people to see a bunch of design decisions, I simply want people to think "Yeah, characters I can identify with dealing with an end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenario... this book is for me!"
Do you think we succeeded?
You can buy The Artemis Effect here (Kindle edition)
You can find Kasia James' blog here
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