Adding a Gardening Tool Illustration - 27.11.22
For the back cover, there was still some white space that I wanted to fill in by adding an illustration of a potential murder weapon. For this, I quickly searched for garden tools online as a source of inspiration. Any garden tool would (theoretically) kill a dog (if you hit the dog hard enough). The slideshow shows the Google page for this inspiration and the sketches that came from it.
I then moved this over to illustrator so I could outline the sketch cleanly and make an illustration out of this. Whilst transferring it over to illustrator, I settled on the gardening fork, sickle and axe.
The sickle would be a good idea because of the way that it is related to death and how some people illustrate death with a sickle.
An axe would be a good murder weapon.
And a gardening fork would be easy to create in illustrator.
All of the tools chosen were very easy and quick to illustrate using illustrator.
The illustrations are shown below using the same dimensions as the dog so that the line weight would be the same for both illustrations.
The slideshows below show the development of the gardening tools illustrations.
I then experimented with adding some of the tools alongside the illustration of the dog at the back. I tried out having none, 1 and 2 tools at the back to fill in the whitespace of the back cover.
I then showed my fiance again to see what she likes and what she does not like. We both agreed during the discussion that adding more illustrations would ruin the look of the back cover as this would make it more cluttered and thus, I had to remove those illustrations.
I also changed the brightness of the background to have a middle ground between the dark background and the background brightness that I chose before, whilst adding the gardening tool illustrations. My fiance said that the background is fine and there is nothing wrong with it.
The development of the background change and the addition of tools are shown below;
I think that I am at the stage where I am happy with my design and ready to talk about the final design of the book cover.