book cover project

with this task we were asked to re design three existing book covers the books i chose were Dan browns angels and demons, the lost symbol and digital fortress.

first i researched a few trilogy sets and narrowed it down to either Philip Pullmans spyglass trilogy, the lord of the rings trilogy or the Dan brown books. i went with Dan brown because i had read all these book sand knew the story their for felt i had an advantage with regards to relating the book cover to the story.

first of i printed a few different versions of publications of each book and decided what i liked about each one and what i didn't like so much this gave me an idea of what i could build on and what i didn't want cluttering my books.

the first book i decided to start with was Dan brown ANGELS AND DEMONS. first i looked at statues of angels in the Vatican and done a light sketch of a statue in st peters church just to get some inspiration but then i found myself drawn to this idea of gargoyles and what they were used for, they actually used them to ward of demons so its kind of like fighting evil with more evil. i like the idea of angels and demons at war with each other or tho I'm not religious  i find this part of it all very fascinating.

so for my front cover of this first book i chose this painting called fall of the rebel angels by peter Paul Rubens which depicts angels fighting demons back in to the abyss which really relates to this book quote well, but also its just an amazingly eye catching image which if i picked up in a book store would defiantly make me read the blurb.

but then i wanted to explore this whole idea of good and evil and two conflicting sides further and it made me think about my star sign Gemini which is pretty much a good side and a bad side with me this rings true because i can go from being the nicest person in the world to a really assy person very quickly weather this is because i am a Gemini i do not know but i thought i would play on that whole idea. so i got an image of yin and yang and cropped my face in to each side then put a slight tint of red on one and a slight tint of blue on the other to symbolise this star sign this was more research than anything.