the one with the bear has an ink smudge. i wanted to die when that happened. but then i remembered that Photoshop exists. what did Aubrey Beardsley do when his ink smudged?
the idea is that these will be framed pictures hanging on a wallpapered wall, which will be the cover for the book. the frames for the brothers will have their names on them, since the brief requires the cover to say 'by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.' so there will be lettering involved.
this is for the Penguin & Puffin book cover competition. I am also doing the other brief for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and it's one of my favourite books. Ironically, that is making it very frustrating for me. I don't know how many different versions I've come up with, how many times I've scrapped one idea to try another and realise it looks like crap. I now have a vague idea of what I think I will end up doing, something that will represent the many layers of the story. I know it's probably not a good idea to cram too much into a book cover. but when the text is precious to you, it's hard not to want to! it's such a good book, that can be read in so many different ways...so my tutor says i seem to be taking a different 'intellectual' approach. i found that flattering. cool word, intellectual. but it's been kinda painful trying to get it right. i think i mentioned earlier that the Lucian Freud archive exhibition was inspiring. keeping motivated is important. the past week I've just put it on the back burner, though, and have just been fooling around with these Grimm drawings, which is just fun because I'm not emotionally invested in making it PERFECT.
I need to realise that i'm never going to think it's perfect. I just need to do the best I can. that's all you can do, that's what you can be proud of.
the deadline for these book covers is 19th April. a couple weeks left. i work way too slowly. seriously. i like detail. but mostly i just tend to stop and think and look at what i'm doing a lot. the coffee/tea/cigarette/toilet breaks ever hour don't help either. if only i could be a disembodied mind with only extendable arms to draw with.
right. okay.
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