FMP: Mock Ups

 These are my proposed mockups for the book covers, I added in a red binder spot just because I'm unsure whether these would go around a hard book cover or not. If not I would simply remove the red binder and I probably would do this for conventions I am selling at (so the production is cheaper, I could charge less). I would pitch them at £7 for the time being, just because I would want them to be quality paper and in colour. Obviously if they were hardback I would charge more, maybe around £12-15 for them.

For the mock ups I kept the back cover text the same, but adjusted the tree colours and binder to match it's front cover. As seen in Nightmares 2, the tree's emulate the front cover colours and a pink colour picked from the rocks is used in the binder.

Seen again here on the third cover, I chose to make the tree's all orange to match the front cover and the binder to be the same as the front cover tree's. For the time being I think it's a good mock up, its showing the basic idea of what I'm going after. I think i might paint the tree's but it will most likely be after deadline and for the end of year show, but at least now I have a colour palette picked out and ready.

I'm really proud of these 3 front covers, it's probably some of my favourite work I've done all year and I really think that's down to the fact I've enjoyed making it and it's something that I've got to pick myself. This project is going to extend after uni and I would like to keep making comics and keep using gouache. When I spoke to Ben Cox back a few weeks ago, he told me that i needed to stick with something long enough to experiment with it and create a way of working with it, I think that gouache might be the way forward for me. It's a shame I didn't realise this earlier on in the year, but at least I have realised it. As much as I like digital art, I think I have a long way to come with being happy with what I make in photoshop, working analogue and taking it across is far more soothing and I am more comfortable with it.