On the weekend I spoke to my brother in London about getting Inspiration for my work, as he works in the Industry as a Web designer and I thought he could point me in a good direction. He did! He told me about a cover art designer who used to work for the company he does (POKE) and I checked out her website and there is some awesome stuff on there!
www.annaheath.co.uk is the website and here are some examples of the work she has done.
This cover art is all hand illustrated even the typography itself is hand drawn. The image on the left hand side is the front cover and the image on the left is the plan of the book; front, side and back.
I really like Anna's work, it all really has its own style that is obvious in all of her work. One of the things I like most about her work is the continuation of the elements across the page here for example the shoal of fish spread across all the way to the back, this is almost a path for the reader to follow if they pick it up in a book shop.
Here is another example of the continuation of design elements, I really like the effect it gives and I definitely will make sure I use this idea when designing my book cover art. I also think the hand drawn typography gives it such an original feel and sets it apart from anything else that uses a bog standard preset. The visual connotations are also very impressive, it shows a man on a boat, sailing on clouds towards a snow storm. Clearly this is a scene from the book and it makes me very interested to find out more instantly achieving the objective of trying to get people to buy the book and enjoy it.
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