Last Unicorn

I know that this is past my original schedule but I finally have an idea for the book. I didn't just want to show a Unicorn, or fields or the red bull. Since i changed my project from Minimalism to Symbolism, due to Watership Down, I wanted to create something that represents loneliness, isolation and extinction of a creature.

So I decided to create a Unicorn skull, withered, dirty colours and a dark red background. I looked at horse skulls on the internet and rhino skulls for the horns. I sketched out the skull and the placement of the horn. I already have a font to use for the title and author and the placement. My next step is to redraw this on photoshop and edit in a way that it looks old and deteriorated, similar to skulls you see in museums.

Sketch of Unicorn skull

Skulls are a great way to represent sadness, loneliness and extinction. Taking the dark road rather than the happy one of just showing the Unicorn doesn't go well with the style of the book. The next step is to outline the skull, colour it, place it on the cover and add shadows and depth. This should be done by the end of this week.

Rough layout of front cover.
 Not sure to add the spine or not.
Will design two covers with spine and no spine

Time, late, everything, what?

Currently my schedule keeps on mucking up as I am running out of time for a few things. This includes this class and not keeping a proper time management. So I decided to make up one for the end of semester.

07/03/16 - 11/03/16:   Work and Finish  Last Unicorn Book
14/03/16 - 18/03/16:   Work and Finish Wolf Brother Book
21/03/16 - 26/03/16:   Work and finish on The Doomspell Book
28/03/16 - 02/04/16:   Work and finish on Neverwhere Book
04/04/16 - 08/03/16:   Work and finish on the NightWatch OR The Reaperman
11/04/16 - 13/04/16:   Print each book cover and place in folder
14/04/16                 :    Create evaluation

I have left out some books to manage my time for this semester. Everything has caught up with me, but If I make a start on the Monday night and finish a book throughout the week then I should manage to have at least 6 or 7 books finished and finalised. I will leave out George Orwells Animal Farm as there are too many designs and none are original, so I have lost interest.