Cover design - Book for teen girls

A few days ago I was asked to design a book cover - oh boy.

Hands up everybody who judges a book by its cover - I do!

I'll still give it a chance and read the blurb before I make up my mind,

but I do, do like nice covers on books.

Of course, if the only thing good about the book is its cover, 

you find out pretty quickly.

Anyway, no pressure, right - phew!

I made a sketch - editor loved it.

So far so good.

 

 

Then comes the coloring.

And everything goes nuts.

SO MANY OPTIONS!!!!

We haven't yet arrived at the final image

(editors and publishers consider a whole whack of factors

before deciding on a cover, so I understand)

but here's my rough drawings.

 

 

Can't reveal the tile yet,

but you can say it's a collection of notes about

"life, the Universe and everything", from the little of it that I read.

 

 

Notes from a mom to her teenage daughter.

Pretty cool, right?

Remember, these are just at the idea stage still...

I like these last two vintage-y looking ones best.

The one with the closed eyes makes the girl 

look like she's floating away on a dream...

We'll see what gets picked.

(They might all get canned - then we start all over again :))