Design a book cover for one of the following: a.) “Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin: use complementary colors to express anguish and uncertainty. b.) “Animal Farm” by George Orwell: use analogous colors with a contrasting accent to express disagreement and discontent. c.) “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett: use secondary colors to express naivety, honesty and harmony.
The book cover must contain the title and the author’s name.
You must clearly make use of color to express the desired effects.
For this task I chose to work with “Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin.
I watched the Rosemary's Baby (1968) movie to get an idea for the theme of the book. For the complementary colors I felt like shades and tints of green and red fit best with the theme, so this was my palette:
I didn't do any sketching for this book cover, but I wanted to experiment with different styles and techniques, using both photos and illustrations. I ended up with quite a few good results.
Illustrations RGB and CMYK
For the second one although I liked how clean and simple it is, I was a bit disappointed to see that the green was almost completely lost on the CMYK version.
I then decided to try to recreate some of my newly learned color effects skills with photos.
I found some fitting photos on a stock site (none of them are mine) and decided to try a split toning effect, using red and green.
Original photo and book cover:
I love how it turned out, but sadly the model on the photo did not look the same as the actress in the movie, so I had to sadly discard this as my final cover. I tried applying the same effect on some baby photos (It was quite fun turning cute babies to demon looking creatures, haha), but in the end I did not find a fitting one. After figuring out that I most likely won't be able to find a photo with a woman that looks like the actress or a fitting baby, I decided to try something more abstract. I combined two different photos in Photoshop to create my final book cover:
Original photos:
Final result: RGB and CMYK
If I were to print this cover I'd definitely work more on the CMYK version and boost the green more, so it's more visible.
I also fitted all of my book cover in to a book mockup:
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