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Rough Book Cover

Postby Daz » May 24, '15, 9:41 am

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Very rough. Been working on it the last couple of hours. I think the idea worked better in my head than it does on the page. Thinking I might have to try and detract focus from a lot of the black text somehow. I also want to have the bottom left corner of the page curling up, and have some of the other posters I've put together arranged underneath.
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Re: Rough Book Cover

Postby prophet » May 24, '15, 9:45 am

I like the idea but there's a lot going on in that image for a book cover. Maybe try it without so much text?
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Re: Rough Book Cover

Postby Daz » May 24, '15, 9:49 am

prophet wrote:I like the idea but there's a lot going on in that image for a book cover. Maybe try it without so much text?


Yeah, pretty much the same conclusion I've come to. Will probably try a stripped down version, or fading the extra text so only the important stuff stands out.
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Re: Rough Book Cover

Postby PorkChop » May 24, '15, 9:58 am

Great piece of work. I agree with prophet though - for a book cover, it probably needs slimming down a tad. It would certainly catch my eye in a book shop though.
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Re: Rough Book Cover

Postby SlightlyJames » May 24, '15, 10:14 am

Was curious so I figured I'd see if taking out a lot of the red and limiting it to only the vital information would make it any more readable. I also cleaned up some of the crinkly paper effect around the red text but I think I took that a little too far. :lol

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Re: Rough Book Cover

Postby Daz » May 24, '15, 10:22 am

SlightlyJames wrote:Was curious so I figured I'd see if taking out a lot of the red and limiting it to only the vital information would make it any more readable. I also cleaned up some of the crinkly paper effect around the red text but I think I took that a little too far. :lol

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Literally just been doing the same thing lol.


Literally just been doing the same thing.
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Re: Rough Book Cover

Postby prophet » May 24, '15, 10:43 am

I'd still probably fade all the other text so that only the important information (author, title etc) is prominent. The colour change looks good though.
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Re: Rough Book Cover

Postby SlightlyJames » May 24, '15, 10:54 am

prophet wrote:I'd still probably fade all the other text so that only the important information (author, title etc) is prominent. The colour change looks good though.


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Re: Rough Book Cover

Postby prophet » May 24, '15, 11:05 am

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Yeah, that one is a lot better IMO.
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Re: Rough Book Cover

Postby Daz » May 24, '15, 3:30 pm

Slightly updated version.

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Re: Rough Book Cover

Postby Viazon » May 25, '15, 2:50 am

I like it. Like most said, the first one you poster had a bit too much and was a bit distracting. The last one you posted looks better.
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Re: Rough Book Cover

Postby EmperorWu » May 25, '15, 3:39 am

I like it, it's cool. But for a book cover it has way too much stuff going on. It hurts my tiny brain. :P

I'd get rid of 90% of the text and just add in a couple of wrestlers or something to keep the theme going.
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Re: Rough Book Cover

Postby Kirbi » May 25, '15, 1:09 pm

It's pretty cool, and the more recent versions are better than the first, but I think it's still a little crowded. Is there a way you could obliterate some of the text? i.e. have part of the poster be torn off, be really stained, or bleached maybe?
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