These are my original pencil thumbnails for the book cover. I had lots of different ideas and went with the rat in the door 101 for the book 1984. I originally had the rat at the door and you were looking at the room from the rat's perspective. Then Rusty suggested having the perspective be from inside the room and seeing the back of the rat. I ended up doing a dark room that you can see the rat in the light of the hallway.
This is the final painting before I put it into InDesign. I took it into Photoshop after I scanned the image to straighten out the lines of the perspective since I did it on water color paper and it had wrinkled. I also adjusted the coloring a little to make it like the original illustration.I think the thing that I had the hardest time with was the perspective being off once scanned into the computer. I also double and triple checked to make sure that the perspectives were correct, especially with the door being open and the window reflecting on the floor. I did many different pencil version to make sure it looked right.
This is what I used for my final print out for the book cover. I took it into Indesign and created the title and authors name by using multiple layers of text with different effects and color transparencies until I got it the way I wanted so it kind of blended into the wall and was almost not visible. I also put a red transparency on top of the painting because I liked the tint that it gave the painting.
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