Hello - I like your portfolio. Are you interested in this job for illustrations and book cover layout? I have a cover concept (image attached), and I think you could do the front cover. I am not sure whether you are experienced doing pen and ink drawing style, which I need for the back cover. Please let me know what you think!
Timeline: no deadline, but sooner is desirable.
Job: Illustration/Design and layout of a book cover, including front, back and spine.
Title: How to Make a Renaissance Woman?
Author: Alexandra Pratt
Concept: See Gemini generated image
Outputs, each high resolution and scalable:
- Print paperback book cover, to be published via Ingram Spark. The dimensions for the book cover: 12.545" x 9" flat, split into a 6" x 9" front and back, and a 0.545" spine.
- Ebook/epub image
- Audiobook, thumbnail and other standard image sizes/formats
Font(s):
- Titles: A style that evokes the Renaissance but is legible, meaning not ornate.
- Text (e.g. Back Cover blurb): Same as titles if easily legible; it should at least align stylistically with the title font and not conflict with it.
- I’m willing to purchase a font (reasonably priced) in order to ensure a professional look and no scaling problems.
Description of cover:
Create an image for a book cover using both the Mona Lisa painting and Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian man, with the clothing and colors of the Madonna Litta. I want the head of the Mona Lisa with a full body in the layout of the Vitruvian Man. The overall style should be merged to be that of a da Vinci oil painting. Add 6 arms and tools to the body, with the tools including a laptop, a pen, a camera, a running sneaker, a baby or small child, and a hand raised in a gesture of command. Align these stylistically with the other image elements.
Comments on the concept image:
The background should evoke a da Vinci sketchbook and aged paper. Keep the circle and square of the original Vitruvian diagram. I like the dramatic quality of the concept, and the rich texture, color and detail. But I do not want the overall image to appear dark or somber.
For the figure, use “full” arms – no partials. I like the left arm and hand in front of the figure (empty is ok), and the right arm with a natural shoulder connection. In other words, two “natural” arms connected to the body, and all the others originating from behind the figure. Delete the feet or convert to slippers.
Clothes/dress: I like the rich blue/red colors of the Madonna Litta (instead of the Mona Lisa’s darker colors), and the Renaissance style and draping.
Comments on the “Renaissance” item designs:
- Carpenter’s square: looks like a picture frame. Needs to look like a square.
- Camera: I wonder if there is a better way to represent a camera a la Renaissance. This seems very 19th century aesthetic.
- Baby bottle: replace with a small sketch/drawing of a baby or child, perhaps in the style of a da Vinci Jesus (hide private parts).
- Laptop: Sort of ok as is, but could it look more Renaissance and less steampunk?
- Running shoe: Looks like a sneaker. Goal is to evoke a modern running shoe (a la Renaissance – possibly as a chopine or with an extended pointy toe?) Sample running shoe:
Back Cover
Replace the da Vinci anatomical studies, geometry, and flying machine diagrams. Create diagrams/sketches in the style of da Vinci with items relevant to this book.
List of possible items below.
I like the blocks of text in da Vinci’s backward handwriting. If it is possible and economical, it would be great to take blocks of text from the book and make them look like da Vinci’s mirror-script handwriting. This is low priority if the cost is high.
Back Cover blurb text:
How do you assess the opportunities you’ve taken and choices you’ve made in life? As a 17-year-old, Alexandra Pratt shared her desire to be a Renaissance Woman. The many achievements of Renaissance Man Leonardo da Vinci inspired her as she started along the path of college, work, and family. “How to Make a Renaissance Woman?” is both a memoir of Pratt’s life as well as a dialogue with herself – and da Vinci – about the highs, lows and in betweens of a life well-lived. And about what might persist beyond one short human life.
“Have I put my talents together well, focused them in ways to create something better than the individual parts, and does that dot-connected whole have some meaning to
fellow humans? Have I made myself a modern-day Leonardo?” she asks, in thought-provoking essays looking back at her childhood and work and life experiences.
The author at 60 makes clear she is sharing a life still in progress. Her hard-earned insights, offered with humor and perspective, provide learnings and wisdom to inspire you to assess and appreciate your own path in life.
Are you a Renaissance person? Do you desire to be one?
Back Cover Images: Create sketches in the style of da Vinci. Feel free to generalize/not be specific to these example:
- House elevation
- Courtyard cobbles design/layout; I don’t have a good photo of the full design, so I’m hoping you can create a sketch with this material (generalize).
- Hand cranked ice cream maker:
- Straight pin inserted in a torn scrap of paper (not fabric)
- Map/backpack/skis – outdoor vibe
- Tansu; apologies for the horrible tool I used to remove the background. If you need other angles or more visual information, please let me know.
- Marathon medal
ISBN & Pricing Panel/Block: Allow for space. I will provide ISBN and pricing data.
Publisher: Reverchon Park Press. Can shorten to RPP on the book spine.
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