Book cover mega update 2- roughs

 After the last big blog post, I completed my roughs. I decided to mostly pursue the more conceptual ideas- with the plant and tree being more representational.

My favourites were the all black except for white strip at bottom (came out of ways of communicating the meloncholia/depression non-representationally- weight, darkness) and the black circle (sun) spreading across the front and back covers. Thankfully, in the crit people mostly agreed with me that the strongest were the these two. 

I found it very hard to chose between the two- but after talking to Matt I decided I would push the black/white strip towards a final as it is less ambiguous to its message- while being less representational- even if it is less illustrative.