Penguin: Cover Design Award – Final Piece and Evaluation

For the final section of this project, I began with sketching out some thumbnails. I came up with six different possible designs, all featuring at least one black woman as the main subject. I decided to go with the design where the woman was partly covered by the title as I thought it might represent …

AOI: World Illustration Awards – Final Piece and Evaluation

Now that all of my research and development is done, I can begin planning final outcome ideas and thumbnailing designs. Figure 1 - First double page of thumbnails. Figure 2 - Second page of thumbnails. I sketched out as many thumbnails as I could, making sure that I included the imagery that I had found …

Penguin: Cover Design Award – Development

Moving onto the development stage of this project, I got the bare minimum done as I was working on limited time due to personal reasons. So the first thing I made sure I had was a quick run-down of the novel, I touched on the characters and how they are all connected, the prominent themes, …

Penguin: Cover Design Award – Research

"The Penguin Cover Design Award is your opportunity to take on the role of a book cover designer and build your portfolio" (Penguin, n.d.). Each year Penguin hosts a book cover design competition, they provide three books to choose from and the winner gets a six-month mentorship with a designer in the Penguin Design Studios, …

AOI: World Illustration Awards – Development

After collecting the research required for this project, I started developing my ideas and producing visual responses. I started with sketching some objects that immediately sprang to mind when I thought of witches, for example potion bottles, crystals, witchy symbols like pentagrams, etc. I thought the crystals would be a great object to look into …

AOI: World Illustration Awards – Research

Every year, the Association of Illustrators host the World Illustration Awards, and this year I decided to participate for my first commercial project. "The World Illustration Awards showcase the great work being made by illustrators all over the world today" (AOI, 2022). I opted to work within the specialism of Product & Packaging, since this …