Initial Ideas

Here are my initial ideas. I started off sketching a few ideas and then went on to developing my ideas within type. I tried to incorporate the key animals within the type. For example the black panther, Bagherra.
On our last lesson before the Christmas holidays we did a class activity where other people gave feedback to our work. My classmates preferred my idea where the word 'Jungle' is in the body of the panther. One of the feedback was to experiment using the type in different animals which are involved in the story such as the bear, snake, elephant, wolf or vulture. 

Here are a few experimental sketches of different animals I could use within my book cover.

Here is a hand drawn idea of my entire book cover. I have included notes showing where what goes where. My next step is to scan in my panther imagery and then play about with different colour schemes and layout.

Above is my scan of the panther. Once I scanned it in I opened it up in Photoshop and played around with the levels to make the black and white prominent. I then went onto erasing all the markings which were on the paper to make it look crisp. I then opened it up in Illustrator and live traced it.

Above are a few improved drawings. I felt the type in the previous drawings wasnt shaped as well i would of liked into the animals.

Above is the vector for my bear sketch. Here I experimented with having the negative space as the type and the other as just a line vector.