Book Cover Design: Illustrate Stories with Evocative Images

Bringing Your Book Cover to Life with Mock-up Templates

A course by Owen Gent , Artist and Freelance Illustrator

99% positive reviews (179)

4,208 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Bringing Your Book Cover to Life with Mock-up Templates

Overview

“It's time to show you how mock-up templates can be a great tool to show your followers and potential clients what you’re capable of.”

In this video lesson Owen Gent addresses the topic: Bringing Your Book Cover to Life with Mock-up Templates, 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

“Bringing your Book Cover to Life with Mockup Templates Now we've got our final covers, all that's left to do is to share those with the world in the best possible way. In this lesson, I'll show you how mockup templates can be a really good tool for sharing your book covers in your online portfolio. Let's jump into Photoshop and I'll show you what I mean. Here we have our flattened final artwork, and I'm going to open these two book jacket mockup templates. If you're not sure what these are, you'll probably got a pretty good idea of what they'll do by looking at these, but they are such a gr...”

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

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (179)
4208 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.