Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer

Book Cover Design

“Welcome to the "Final Project" section and thank you so much for taking this course with me and for exploring the world of book cover design. I hope that you feel more comfortable with how to create cover designs with different mediums! I am now going to show you how to share each step of your final project with the whole community. Don't forget to create something different from my work! First of all, you have to choose what theme you want to design the cover for. Choose according to your interests, passions, or curiosity! Share all the details about your choice.

Research by reading as much information as you can about your topic and analyzing what the story is about. If you decided to create a cover starting from a character, be sure to fully understand what makes the character unique. Share with the community what you found out! Now, form a concept of how you want to represent the story or one/several of the characters for the cover. Choose a medium, or more than one, that you want to use. Make several prototypes using variations of your concept. Share your best results! It's time to pick your favorite work. Having chosen what you feel is the best idea/approach, scan it. Then, do any final touch-ups on the computer. Finally, you can insert your work into a mock-up, to bring it to life. Show us the magic you did! ... And you are done! I am so excited to see the covers that you create and I’ll be sure to let you know my thoughts when I can, though please remember that I’m often busy with illustration projects. Don't forget to comment on other people's work in the forum and give constructive feedback to help them improve. Thank you so much for taking the time to come on this course with me and I wish you all the best in everything!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project Congratulations, you did it. This is the end of the course. Thank you so much. I hope you enjoyed taking it as much as I did creating it. While working on your final projects, remember to try many different concepts until you find a few you're happy with. Remember to make your comic book covers unique. I'd love to see a re-imagining of an existing series or even some unknown superheroes. A lot of things won't work, but that's ok, because it'll bring you closer to something that does. Don't let yourself be intimidated if you're not good at drawing your own illustrations. There ...”

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Course summary for: Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (48)
• 1429 students
• 4 units
• 12 lessons (1h 43m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Comic, Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Traditional illustration