What A Carve Up! - Book Cover
as always I began with a thumbnail sketch, however this time i had multiple ideas that i couldn't decide between, so mapped a bunch out to help me decide.
The basic premise of the book is that the murder mystery series 'What A Carve Up!' begins to play out in real life. I have tried to capture this in the VHS by including six shot revolver cylinders and a bloody dagger on the VHS label. On the back page I have included an Air plane, and integral part of the story and managed to connect it to the entire image by joining the smoke plume and VHS film/tape.
The design has gone through a few small changes during the colouring process, I decided to add a break in the spine of the design as i felt like the tape ribbon would interfere too much with the spine text. As for the colour, Im attempting to get an old style newspaper theme since the book is based around a newspaper columnist.
I went with the old red letter wax for the actual ink colour, as it was a perfect way to portray the bloodied tape ribbons and violence whilst still sticking to the newspaper theme.
