responsive: ICB Screenshots & Final

Here are the final screenshots and progress for my In Cold Blood book cover. I'm really pleased with how it turned out in the end even though it's not what I had originally planned. The route that I started with was doing the bloody footprint as I thought it was quite a crucial part of the book, and what led them into finding the murderers. Although I liked this idea, I just couldn't get it to look how I wanted to. It looked too cartoony and not serious enough for what the book is about.

That's when I just started to play around with some brushes that I had acquired and found the perfect one that looked like blood. I couldn't believe how much it looked like it and loved how it looked. So I played around with that for a bit, using different brushes to add small splatters and texture, and I really like how the final thing came out as a background for a book. I think it looks more professional than the footprint. 

I did try and incorporate one of my other ideas of the pyjama shirt, but I still felt that it wasn't looking how I wanted it to look. Researching adult non-fiction books found me thinking that the cover should be really simple and not too cartoon-y looking, which is what led me to my next idea of just using the background I had created with text over the top.

I did try out some hand-written fonts to see if I could make it work with them but I just wasn't feeling that either and I think the Courier New font that I ended up going with felt much better and lent idea to hospital vibes and I think it really works.

I'm really pleased with how the final thing turned out. It's simple and yet effective, drawing you in but not giving too much away, just that it's about murder.