Ideas & Processes - warrior

Ideas

I'm trying to show her enchantment and toughness with book cover designs

Cleopatra is Egypt's last queen. Her desire to protect her country and her relationship with Caesar and Antonius showed how enchanting and strong she was.

Processes

Book Size: 128*198 mm

Software:  Procreate, Photoshop and Illustration

1. Sketch ideas using Cleopatra's Images from this previous research post
2. Taking sketches into shape in Photoshop and Illustration Programs
3. typography : Research on a style harmonized with book titles and illustrations.

4. Selecting colors

1.

To sketch ideas, I used a program called Procreate. I think it could be a digital sketchbook. It is difficult to do detailed work like illustrations and Photoshop, but it is convenient to draw and erase sketches. It was also good to consider colors together when I was sketching the beginning idea.

First, I choose a picture similar to Cleopatra's image that I wanted to express and proceeded with the idea sketch. I tried to figure out what color combination would be like in advance.

2.

Secondly, I thought about the font of the letter that will be the title of the book cover. To do so, I first studied serif and sans serif.

https://www.impactbnd.com/hubfs/Serif-Sans-Comp.jpg

According to IMPACT(2019), the serif font is more ornamental and has serifs extending from the ends while the sans serif font on the left has clean and very precise ends.

In addition,  the most notable characteristic of serif fonts is their decorative tails and strokes.

For Cleopatra, the serif typeface is more suited than the sans serif typeface, as can be seen only by looking at these two main features.

 I thought serif typeface was more appropriate than sans serif typeface to express her strong and attractive character. So the title font used 'Times New Roman'.

I chose purple as the main colour to express Cleopatra, a seductive and mysterious image. However, I'm thinking about it more because it doesn't seem to express as well as I thought. I should think more about colours before the final board.

IMPACT (2019) Sans Serif vs Serif Font: Which Should You Use & When? [online] Available from: https://www.impactbnd.com/blog/sans-serif-vs-serif-font-which-should-you-use-when#:~:text=A%20serif%20is%20a%20decorative,hence%20the%20%E2%80%9Csans%E2%80%9D). (Accessed 13/07/2020)