Animal Farm is a classic book authored by George Orwell. After reading it, I wanted to illustrate my impression in form of a book cover.
You can see some of the process steps that we have laid out in our illustration design practice.
Glimpses of storyboards and design decisions that I made:
For colour palette, I referenced past book covers. You can see the recurring theme of colours in all book covers. Because they evoke specific emotions that you feel after reading Animal Farm.
Orwell’s style is direct, incisive, almost brutal. I chose the Impact typeface to convey the message.
Sometimes, we don’t go for colouring right away. And experiment with “underpainting” technique. Eventually, I chose a brighter shade.
The final book cover looked like this:
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