In this week, I got to rethink and re-evaluate my jacket design. My initial idea was too confined and limited, so I decided to explore further and come up with more intricate designs and not be restricted to a single type of ideation. In order to come up with a broad, yet somehow focused jacket design, I researched the designs and recurring motifs used in pottery for the eight civilisations I had written about in my timeline. I noticed these patterns, symbols and themes used in the making of these pots and decided to make a collage of these designs and incorporate the most significant representations of these civilisations into one.

My Jacket Designing process:

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The inspiration Process

In order to create my desired illustrations, I used the brush tool, the shape tool and the text tool. I first began mapping out my styles on paper quite roughly, trying to gauge how I can encompass the feel of history into a single image on my jacket. I decided to use the designs, patterns and most importantly the people from each civilisation to illustrate this feeling. Because the people’s images on these pots express a way of living and tell tales about how their lifestyles, I chose to make this the forefront of the ideation behind my jacket cover.

I chose to keep my colour scheme relevant to the colours of the pots used in each civilisation. I also chose to use a few vibrant colours but still keep the overall vibe of the cover mellow using a contrast between dull and bright colours. I didn’t want to use too many flashy colours, because this would ruin the “history” aspect of the book as I really wanted to give the book a personal touch with my drawings and not want it to conform to the typical idea of how vintage history books look. I chose the two colours maroon, and off white as they go very well together and would bring out the colours in my book without looking too plain (if I used white, the colours would look flashier.