Book Cover re-design (part 1) Preliminary design sketches

 I am choosing to re-design a book written by Nicholas Sparks. 

    The Wish written by Nicholas Sparks was published in 2020 and is a book about a young girl who moves in with her aunt, at first very home sick missing her friends, struggling to adapt to this small village on North Carolina's outer-banks. Maggie is a renowned travel photographer, she splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations are the world. Recently coming to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis she finds herself needing some help, she hires an assistant named Bryce, who she becomes very close with. 

so, for my book re-design my first idea was to use a dandelion. "The Wish" -the first thought that pops in my head is someone making a wish by blowing a dandelion. 

I would like to move the word "THE" in the title above the dandelion, this sketch I started with it down below but the title would be read "The Wish" so I think better placement wold be above. 

my next idea- is to use as a shooting star as imagery in the background over a mountain view. 

 

Book Cover Re-design part 2

 I chose to re-design a Nicholas Sparks book cover for this project. This is a book I recently read and enjoyed and already had a few ideas regarding redesigning the cover. 

I chose to change the the type font back to Nicholas Sparks old font that was used on previous book cover designs to a bold serif font. I decided to still use a sans serif for the title to keep the cover design more modern, my thought process on this was having the authors font display a more traditional font since he has been writing books for a long time, but having the title reflect modern times.  Creative efforts I used in this project was choosing to bevel the script font in the type to make the word wish stand out more. I also had to remove the background from the dandelion image I downloaded from a stock website, so as you can see I still need to work on my "select/ mask" features so I can get a much more sharp image, I lost detail the larger stem. I also decided to give the dandelion a shadow appearance, I thought this just have the cover a more dimensional appearance so the cover would not look so flat. 

Stand up for the voices who can't

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