Proko Challenge Favorite Book Cover - FINAL SUBMISSIONS HERE
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April 2022 Proko Challenge with judge Madi Harper is here! This thread is for posting your FINAL SUBMISSIONS ONLY.
Remember to upvote your favorites from other participants. We will have a community choice award :)
To post your works in progress, and get the challenge details, rules, and prizes go to:
https://www.proko.com/lesson/april-proko-challenge-favorite-book-cover-with-madi-harper/notes
*EDIT:
This challenge is closed! Congrats to all the winners! See written critiques and winners here - Book Cover Proko Challenge Results
I chose Siddhartha. I wanted to have an orange/yellow setting, because it plays in India. Also because of the orange monk ropes. I worked with watercolour and photoshop.
Holy crap. One minute before the due cut off. Yikes. Haha. What fun it has been.
For this challenge, to think of children's books, it took me a while to get going. I then remembered "Huge Harold," by Bill Pete. For me, it was the old victorian house on the hill in which Harold ran in for shelter for the storm. I loved that mystery, of an old abandoned house. I didn't know or identify as a kid, that I'm a fan of architecture, and this challenge really brought that to me. I also am a fan of chateau's and statuary, ornate decoration and ornamentation. I love lavish gardens, spaces filled with art and mystery, every element lending to beauty rather than mere utility. Amazing cars, also interest me. Classic styling. Thankfully, sports cars in the last decade have had some sexy curves added into them as well, in design.
Milo, has a whole mansion...
Hello! Here is my book cover for Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Thank you for the challenge!
Hello everybody,
Last-minute submission, but I hope it is on time.
My book cover is for Civilizations from Laurent Binet.
12x16 Inches. Traditional gouache painting, limited to 2 colors + black and white.
Imagine a Marvel's What If episode; this book is an awesome "What If Spain never colonized Latin America." Furthermore, What if the Incas would be traveled to Europe and expanded there. As cusqueño, I love to imagine the Incas without colonization.
For the book face, I use the silhouette of Atahualpa (one of the book's main characters) contemplating Toledo's walls. (And I know that sounds like the book only makes the Incas the bad guys, but the book does a great job describing the expansion of the Incas civilization without the fellness of the colonization). On the other hand, the Sun simplifies the classical Cusco's Sun monument. It's rising because the book talks about the rising of the 5th "suyo" (the Incas civilization divided their territories into four parts or "suyos"). In addition, the "civilizations" title also uses a Quipu symbol (the ropes with knots that extend the linear characters). The Quipu was a communication system that the Incas developed in their times that consisted of multiple strings with multiple knots.
I'm attaching my process. I hope you will enjoy it.
Hey yall, this is my design for The Metamorphosis. I finished the book recently and I was kind of surprised that there weren't more interesting book covers for such an iconic book, so I took a crack at designing my own. I hope you guys like it, I also posted a couple other designs on my instagram @ruby.taylor.art :)
My attempt at one of my favs - I am the Harry Potter generation - inspired by Eileen Soper’s designs on Enid Blytons books.
too many hobbits, so heres another classic.
got the chance to read Gilgamesh, Iliad and Odyssey in high school, really inspiring stories.
this was kind of last minute, watercolor on cold press , with some letters drawn in procreate.
Hello! I chose to do the cover of the second book of the Trixie Belden series, The Red Trailer Mystery. It was first published in 1950, but my favourite cover was the editions republished in the 60s, called cameo editions because of the cameos of Trixie in the upper left corner. Mary Stevens did the original interior illustrations, so I included her along with the author on the cover. Trixie Belden books are also published under the name Kathryn Kenny, but Julie Campbell wrote the first 6 books.
I chose colours based on the first cameo edition, as they're some of the first colours I think of when I think of Trixie Belden. I always feel a part of the Bob Whites when reading these books. They make you feel at home. I chose to illustrate Trixie and Honey spotting the orchard that's a part of the Smith farm. The Smith Farm and their old apple orchard are very important to the solving of the mystery!
I hope you enjoy my cover! It was such a wonderful learning experience, perfect for where I'm at in my journey as an artist. This is completely traditional by the way!
Hey guys, here is my submission for the book cover challenge. I chose ‘Saltwater Buddha; A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea’ by Jaimal Yogis. I drew inspiration from Tibetan art and the The Legend of Zelda : The Wind Waker, which surprisingly had some overlapping characteristics. I felt it was a good marriage between meditation, the sea, and adventure. I hope you like it. I also highly suggest his other books including ‘The Fear Project’ and ‘All our Waves are Water’.
Hey people. Good evening.
My book cover is "Open veins of America Latina". I'm not sure if it's my favorite book ever, but certainly my favorite from the latest I read. It's too said and bitter tho, so I could'nt let that feeling out of my cover.
Congrats for everyone's works.
Here is my submission for the book cover challenge, a cover for Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables.
Hello all. This is my first time submitting to one of these challenges. I was excited by the prompt but struggled to pick a favorite book, so I settled for one of my favorite books. I hope you enjoy the submission.
Roddy
Hello everyone,
Here's my entry for this challenge. That was really fun to do, and I've seen a lot of beautiful covers.
Mine is from a french fantasy book about a young boy in our times (well, the 2000's) who become a sorcerer, channeling magic with his connection to the stars. The name translates by "The Book of the Stars". It was my favorite when I was a teenager.
Watercolor with two colors.
Have a nice day !
This cover design is for The Master and Margarita. I did a design inspired by the book awhile back and felt this was a cool contest to expound on that idea.
Hi everyone! Here is my submission for this challenge, a cover for Adam Silvera’s They Both Die at the End.
Hello, this is my book cover entry!
I chose Circe by Madeline Miller as it was my absolute favourite read last year.
Circe is a herb-witch exiled to a luscious island, so I chose an art nouveau style as I found the style’s “plant-based” themes and organic lines suitable.
She is holding a glass of wine because we know her character from “the odyssey” for turning Odysseus’ men into pigs with enchanted wine.
Hi everyone! This is my first Proko Challange! I couldn't resist to squeeze in some time for it when I saw the topic! It was a real challange to work with such a limited colour palette! The book I went with is one of my all time favourites, Sabriel by Garth Nix. A very good fantasy story with interesting takes on magic and good storytelling!