Out of the two projects I completed, this was definitely my favourite. I did find it easier to put the book cover together than I did trying to make patterns. My biggest strength in this project was definitely choosing to try and create something using paints, I think paints are one of my stronger media's to use and I can usually work really well with it and get a high quality result. I was very pleased with the painting produced of the Toad and would happily do it again. I find painting really interesting and I enjoy it more than any other media, though it can be time consuming and if you go wrong it isn't always easy to correct it. My other strength during this project was asking people about my work constantly, making sure that it was eye catching and appealed to a wide audience. I got a lot of good feedback from people and when people said I should try something, I would experiment with it and try it out, even if I personally didn't think it would work. This really helped me to try out more things and get a good perspective of what people would look for if they were going to buy the book. One thing I did try and make sure I got right was the text as well, in a few of the examples I looked at I mentioned how the text didn't work and I didn't want to fall into the same mistakes myself. I tried to keep the text quite simple and legible. I tried the text in a number of positions and a number of different fonts to try and get the right one for my cover, I think for both covers I was able to achieve this.
I think my weakness for this project was my sketches. I think I would have benefited from doing more sketches and maybe trying different positions/angles. I did do a variety of different angles to begin with and just didn't think anything worked as well as the face on approach which is why I stuck to it.
Overall I'm very pleased with my results as I was able to complete two very different covers for the book The Wind in the Willows and I really like both versions. I did ask around again to see what the general opinion was of other people though and the majority of people preferred the painted version as they said it was different to what they've seen before and was very eye catching and detailed, someone even said they hated the story but if they saw my cover they would definitely be interested and have a look into it, which was definitely a great bit of feedback to get.
If I was to do this project again there isn't actually a lot I would personally change. I think the more cartoony one could may do with a bit more tidying up with the lines, but it does work as it is so would only be a possibility, but I think the other cover works really well as it is, especially if I'm getting such great feedback about it.
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