Book Cover Design: Illustrate Stories with Evocative Images

Tracing the Type and Final Graphic Design Tweaks

A course by Owen Gent , Artist and Freelance Illustrator

99% positive reviews (179)

4,204 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Tracing the Type and Final Graphic Design Tweaks

Overview

“It's time to bring everything together and show you a technique I use to give my type a hand-drawn feel.”

In this video lesson Owen Gent addresses the topic: Tracing the Type and Final Graphic Design Tweaks, which is part of the Domestika online course: Book Cover Design: Illustrate Stories with Evocative Images. Learn how to distill the words of a book into a single image using watercolors, handmade textures, and Photoshop.

Partial transcription of the video

“Tracing the Type and Final Graphic Design Tweaks In this lesson, we'll bring those graphic design elements together and I'll show you a technique that I use to give my type a hand-drawn feel. Let's go into Photoshop, and I'll show you what I mean. Here I've got my almost finished cover, and one of the last things I wanna do is to integrate this text. I really like the font, but I wanna give it a slightly hand-drawn texture and integrate it into the image a little more. First, I'm gonna make this a little smaller 'cause looking at it now, maybe that large author credit got in the way of that...”

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Course summary for: Book Cover Design: Illustrate Stories with Evocative Images

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (179)
4204 students
5 units
18 lessons (3h 29m)
8 downloads

Category
Design
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Bookbinding, Editorial Design, Graphic Design

Owen Gent

A course by Owen Gent

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Artist and Freelance Illustrator

Owen Gent is an artist and freelance illustrator who specializes in book cover design. Growing up in Devon meant he was inspired by nature from a young age and always dreamed of being an artist. He went on to study illustration in Falmouth in Cornwall, and there, began experimenting with telling stories through the traditional and digital painting techniques which are now an integral part of his work.

He currently creates from his studio in Bristol and has worked on everything from editorial illustration and advertising to record sleeve design and animation. During his ten-year career, he has worked with publishers including Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, and Vintage and had his work recognized at the D&AD Awards, International Illustration Awards, and Cannes Lions - International Festival of Creativity.