Book Covers

Wow-- I've gone through about 500 sketches (perhaps an exaggeration)... and I haven't been happy with anything. On the 501 sketch I finally arrived at a possible solution I like. From the get go I've been thinking that I would like to do the minxes series for the book covers. I had the idea of using legs for each cover. When I started sketching, however, I thought a lot of them were coming out a bit too suggestive... still, Baby Doll, Lolita and Breakfast at Tiffany's certainly have their suggestive sides. Anyway, I toned it down a bit, and I think I'm still going to pursue the leg theme as a unification for the various covers. For all of them I want to stick to a pastel color palatte suggesting innocence -- an irony in light of the various subject matters.

Without further ado... here are my sketches so far. I think I'm going to start playing with type in Illustrator... my handwritten type stinks.

Here's the sketch for Lolita:



Again, the color palette will be pastels... I'm thinking of also "coloring" the legs in large blocks of solid color that don't necessarily match the forms. Also thinking about placing the back cover type at an angle so it mimics the angle of Lolita's leg on the cover.... just a thought.

Here's the Baby Doll sketch:



Again-- pastel colors that will tie in with the Lolita cover. Still working on a sketch for Breakfast at Tiffany's. I think my hand may fall off soon.... so I may work on the typography with the existing sketches for now.