Book covers!!

So, um, I absolutely love books and I was really excited to get started on this project.  The hardest part of getting started was choosing what book to do! I've read a lot of books, and seen a lot of book covers in my time, but I decided to do 1984 by George Orwell.  It's one of my favorite dystopian society novels, and I wanted to make a kick-butt cover for it!

 I sketched out a couple of ideas, and was getting all set to do the one with the fence-type shape in the foreground (bottom left of this first page), but later I decided it was kind of static and well, boring.

To remedy that, I played around with a few different ideas.  A dystopic city behind that idyllic white picket fence, or even a dilapidated (such a great word) house.  The fence posts were supposed to be the 4 ministries, with their names, and then their actual functions.  If you've never read this book - go do it! Right now! For real though, read it, it's pretty amazing.

I still wasn't sold on this whole fence thing, but none of my other ideas were any good, but then one day inspiration struck!  I needed something more dynamic, and what's more dynamic than triangles? Nothing, that's what. So this idea was born.  The illusion of the bright, shining, utopia juxtaposed (another awesome word) with the dark, gloomy, and slightly creepy dystopia that is the reality, but is supposedly hidden.

And here's a close up of the colored one, because you look kinda silly with your head turned sideways like that. :)