Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
Other Alternatives
A course by Silja Goetz , Illustrator
About the video: Other Alternatives
Overview
“I have elaborated two alternative covers for my books, maybe you like them better! Now I would like to show you 2 alternative covers for Death on the Nile based on the thumbnail sketches I did in the beginning. I am not sure which I like best, what do you think? ”
In this video lesson Silja Goetz addresses the topic: Other Alternatives, which is part of the Domestika online course: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story. Learn the secrets of conceptual illustration to create an eye-catching book cover using analog and digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Other alternatives Now, I'm happy with my final cover, however, in the real world, there would be also a client, there would be an art director, there would be other people, even sometimes the author himself looking over my draft. And for any amount of reasons they would reject maybe this beautiful cover I just was drawing. So I've prepared two other alternatives for the same book, just to show you that an illustrator always has to be prepared to have another ace up his sleeve. So here is the bird's eye view of Linnet walking into the temple. And now we have the scene very clearly, the rock...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
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Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Silja Goetz
A course by Silja Goetz
Silja has always loved to draw, and with the encouragement of her parents, she kept it up and decided early on that she wanted to become an illustrator. She studied Communication Design in Nüremberg while working as an illustrator for a magazine about animals for children, along with some work for magazines like Elle and Cosmopolitan.
Silja worked as a layout designer for Allegra Magazine (Germany) for over two years, where she learned to see illustration from an art director’s perspective. After deciding she wanted to create illustrations instead of working with the work of others, she took a leap of faith and moved to Spain, where she started working as a freelance illustrator.
She has worked with press clients like The New Yorker, Elle, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Die Zeit, Outdoor magazine, and more, as well as on advertising projects for clients like Estrella Damm. Her book cover illustrations adorn the books of publishers like Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Gräfe und Unzer, and Doubleday.
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