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
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
“in this lesson. we're going to bring those graphic design elements together and I'm going to show you a technique that I use to give my type hand-drawn feel. So let's go into Photoshop and I'll show you what I mean. So here I've got my almost finished cover. And kind of one of the last things I want to do is to kind of integrate this text. I really like the font. but I think I want to give it a slightly hand-drawn texture and kind of integrate it into the image a little more. The first thing I'm going to do is actually make this a little smaller. Is Looking at it now. I think maybe that lar...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Design: Illustrate Stories with Evocative Images
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Bookbinding, Editorial Design, Graphic Design
Owen Gent
A course by Owen Gent
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.
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