Personal & Professional Practice : Cover illustration TO BE CONTINUED

The making of front and back cover illustration.

Reference image for covers:

From Mr Google.

Opened the sketch in Photoshop> change the level.

Cmd+W for magic want tool then go to select>Modify>expand

By using the bucket tool I coloured them in however at the edges of illustration is not clean > greasy edges. After I had a long thought, I decided to..

Go on Illustrator and 'Image Trace' the sketch (The one that I changed the Level in Photoshop). I then copied..

and pasted it as 'Smart Object' in Photoshop.

Add some colours

I found out that the edges are softer and neater.

I scanned a page of typography from my sketchbook and changed the level in Photoshop as well as Image traced it in Illustrator.

I realised that the typography is in such a mess - not align and different font sizes.

As usual I am using the grid tool to make everything align.

Cmd+T to straighten the letters.

This is the outcome.

Which cover design should I pick for the front cover?

Hmm. I think the most successful one is the top left as all my illustration have not got any background colour and it stands out more compared to the top right.

Back cover.

Back cover illustration.

At first I wanted to put 'beware !' on the bubble speech but then I changed my mind and decided to ut 'I could be next to you'. So the image above is the typography that I wrote on my sketchbook using a thick felt-tip.

I also had to image trace it.

Now after I got all the letter done, it's time for me to sort the sentence out.

I am having trouble of arraign the typography, this is due to a big amount of typography in a small scale of speech bubble. Well, I could change the quote from 'I could be next to you' to 'how about you' (?)