A book cover from scratch was - for me - way too hard. I'm the kind of guy that when I design the book cover, I have to justify it. So the book cover then needs a story underneath it... then the story needs a plot... now the plot wants a protagonist and a climax (who doesn't) and blah blah blah. You see where this is going. Beside learning to control my creative thoughts, I needed to get some inspiration for my story and such. I have learned that inspiration is a powerful tool for the whole creation process. It gives you colors, ideas, form, unity, everything. These first book covers were inspired by my own foolish pride, if the title didn't give it away.
The actual scenes are (checks again) - make that one scene from the top cover - fake. I just wanted a dude walking out on a girl in tears because of his own foolish pride. Then it became the issue of how to communicate these things in a simple and rapid fashion for a book cover. like most things having to due with pride, it didn't pan out.
The bottom left one was going to be the big color printer in the lab that has all those ink cartridges hanging out of it. Each one was going to be a sin or something and the paper was going to be freshly printed on the tray in front of the paper. On it was going to say "Foolish Pride" or something akin to it. I still think it's a decent idea that could work, but I dropped that one, too.
The final cover on the right is one that makes me smile because I have no idea what was going on when I drew it. It's just there. Wtf is "How to Avoid the Law?" lol, I have no idea.
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