The cover for the Folio Society needs to be quite simple. It could have been in black and white or preferably a limited colour palette. The ideal binding is simple and graphic for printing onto or embossing the cloth in reproduction.
After the research came the ideas for which factors of the other illustrations I could use in the book cover:
I used the elements I wanted to include in this cover design (from the previous illustrations to see what they looked like together. I like how they all fit together and appear to be a illustration for a story on its own. The colours work and the trees seem to fit well, framing the image. Its a shame that because of the restraints of the cover illustration that I will lose the detail through the fine colouring.
This is my final image for The Angela Carter's 'Bloody Chamber' novel:
I have decided upon this cover for The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter. The image is bold and has a limited colour palette as its being embossed onto material. The orange colouring background in this image would be the orange of the material books cover and continue round to the spine and back of the book. The spine would be where the title and author would be.
It reflects the other designs inside the book, as it uses the same colour palette, composition of large and small objects as well as the potential for seeing this as having a sexual nature. These elements and composition seemed to work well for the interior illustrations, so why not keep this continuity in the cover.
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