Clapton Book Cover

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Clapton Book Cover Sketch

So, I don't really know of any folk, jazz, or classical musicians well enough to create art about them, so I went a more bluesy route and went with a musician I've been back into listening to a lot lately: Eric Clapton.  My book cover design so far is:

 The front cover will be the right side.  What I'd like to do is take a straight on photo of Clapton playing the guitar.  I'd like to crop it so just enough of his face is showing so people can kinda of tell it's him, but not show his whole face.  I really want the focus to be more on the guitar because that's what he's known for.  The title of the book will be curved along the inside of the bottom of the guitar.  I'm hoping to find a slightly psychedelic/curvy font that will still look fancy and not too childish. The background will be littered with mostly transparent words that are actually some of his most popular song titles.  Not all of them will be showing completely as I want it to look like I layered Clapton's image over-top of them, not that I'm bordering his image with the words afterward (if that makes any sense).  My name (/author's name) will be towards the bottom left corner, though I'm not certain on the type of font or size of it yet.

The bookend will simply be the title in the font I find for the title on the guitar and my last name towards the bottom as most books tend to be designed.

At the top of the back cover, (ideally) I'd like to try to re-create this image without the woman and her dog:

I may end up using this image itself though because I want it to look like a snapshot of his "fandom" in action and I think this image does that.  I'd like to try doing it myself though for some more Photoshop experience.
 Below that I'd do a little write up on him: awards he's won, bands he's been in, the sorts of things authors try to entice people with on the backs of books.  Again, the song titles will be along the background.

As for a color scheme, I think I see the front being a warm, dark beige and some red.  Kind of muted/hazy, but a little funky.  Given that, the "Clapton Is God" sign will have to become more sepia toned to fit in with the rest of the cover.  Those colors are certainly subject to change, however.  Let me know what you think!

Proj. 2 - Eating Disorder Awareness Poster

Here is the final version of my eating disorder awareness poster.  Basically, I kept most everything to my original sketch except that I added some statistics/contact info per the advice of one of our classmates.  I also was unable to work in the zipper that I wanted to have on the daughter's mouth.  The background image of the family eating was just not oriented to make that doable.  I tried and, after resizing the zipper to fit her mouth, you couldn't even tell what it was on her face.  Honestly I think it turned out better than I thought it would!  Let me know what you think!

Awareness Poster Sketches - Eating Disorder Awareness

Though National Eating Disorder Awareness Week actually ends today, it made me think about making an eating disorder awareness poster.  Originally, I was planning to do my poster on animal rights and rescues, but after looking over some other awareness posters, I got this new idea.  Eating disorders, unfortunately, hit very close to home in my life and I think that's why I thought I'd have some insight to share in portraying it through a poster.

Some of the writing may be a little hard to read, but I'll explain it here.

The image is meant to be of a family at dinner with a father, mother, son and daughter.  On the table are plates in front of everyone and multiple bowls of food to be served like salad, mashed potatoes, peas, meat and whatnot.  Everyone has food on their plate except the daughter.  Additionally, there are thought bubbles above everyone's heads.  For everyone but the daughter, I wanted to have foods they like in the shape of a heart (like the image below) in the thought bubble to show how they are all thinking about how much they enjoy the food they are about to eat: 

In the daughter's thought bubble, I want the image to be of a scale.  It's hard to see in my sketch, but I'd like to put something like a closed zipper over where her mouth would be.  I'd also like her dressed in a big, baggy sweatshirt like she's trying to hide her body.  This is meant to show that she's trying to stop herself from partaking in the meal everyone else is enjoying because all she can think about are the pounds she could gain from eating it.

The caption I have now, but may play with reads, "Because the only weight on your mind should be what course to start with."  This is meant to be the main message but also a play on "weight."  She has the physical pounds kind of weight on her mind already, but I'd also be using a different meaning of "weight" as in having something "weigh on your mind."  The purpose of the message is that we should all be able to love and enjoy food responsibly without being burdened by thoughts of getting "fat."  At the bottom of the image, I'd like the NEDA name and information.