After much indecisiveness I finally got a design for my covers. I designed the entire bookcover without a front page and had both complete up to that point. I then started pondering what I could do for my covers. I almost stalled, but designed on a realistic background, but then edited in photoshop and I created images in Illustrator, which isn't as daunting a program as I had once thought.
In a lot of his mystery novels, Mosley has a common theme of putting a color in the title as this is evident in both books I had to design for. I wanted to intergrade that idea into the design. Originally I had a gradient that you see on the book of the book on the front as well, but this didn't work with the women on the covers and ultimately had to be changed.
I think they both turned out pretty well and after a few prints on black and white I got the size perfectly (luckly it worked out on my final print that cost me $30 at Officemax). After being stuck on coming up with an idea for so long it was finally nice to have an idea and roll with it and it to actually look nice.
Here are some photos taken of my book covers. I think they turned out very nicely.
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