Front Cover | Experiments

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For the front Cover I wanted to come up with some ambiguous and not too obvious. The short story starts by describing the scene around the sniper and pay particular attention to how the moon is casting a dim glow over the village/town. I really liked this little description and think it would be fun to create something slightly surreal involving the sniper and the moon. I decided to draw up some thumbnail designs of what I might like the front cover to look like and which compositions work best (Above Image). I most preferred the bottom designs in which the sniper is sitting upon the moon rather than the roof of the building. I decided to take the right drawing further and play around with it in Photoshop.

I wanted to come up with something mysterious but also somewhat whimsical because of the description in the beginning of the story. When I pictured the scene I imagined a bright moon glowing over a country and sniper in the grips of a war, which inspired me to us these two subjects to create a particular scene. Instead of the placing the sniper on the roof of a building I felt it would look more inconspicuous if he was sitting on the edge of a moon, as well as, being a more alluring image for the cover of a book.

Continuing the experiments for the front cover I wanted to try laser cutting the illustration and printing with oils to see what design I could come up with. Although unfinished I loved the textures that the MDF produced with the oils and will continue to work on these prints in the future.