NOTE: THIS POST IS ORIGINALLY FROM THIS SITE’S SISTER BLOG RAGTAGMAGPIE.COM
Visit RagTag for ideas around arts and crafts, bios on famous artists from all media and genres, and the projects my wife is currently working on. It’s updated daily and contains a huge amount of material.
Here’s the post- enjoy, and if you want to read one of the stories from You Could Make a Killing you can read it here.
My husband is just finishing off his second book of short stories and this time he agreed that I could design his book cover.
I started off with a bit of research and as I’m not skilled enough to use any online design software opted for a Matisse style paper cut design taking inspiration from the genius designer Saul Bass.
If you’re not familiar with his name you’ll certainly be familiar with his iconic works…
I started with some scribbles – as much as anything to make sure the design I was thinking of was something my other half would like and then I worked up some basic layouts to size.
and then I spent the rest of the day with a scalpel and big pile of paper. I created two designs, although I think the simple black, white and grey version works best.
*
Post Script:
Well, in the end, I went with the colour version…You Could Make a Killing is now available at Amazon