The Outsiders: Karla's Version
For this project, I was tasked with reimagining The Outsiders book cover in three different ways. I was also challenged to make sure that those three different variations were unique from each other and were intriguing in their designs.
Word Map
THE OUTSIDERS
hope
mustang
youth
sunset
loss
fear
gritty
soda
grease
church
learn
judge
Mood Boarding
I took my best ideas from my initial thumbnails and I refined them further. This meant cleaning up lines and working on compositions more. I really started to flesh out here the general ideas I liked which was loss of youth, contention, and being forgotten. You can see the way that the visuals evolved from draft to draft.
Thumbnails
This was the first time I ever sketched anything for the project. I tried to differentiate as much as possible and keep my options open. I decided to create a total of 30 thumbnail this first round and made sure that I stayed diverse in genre and gave attention to more visual and more text focused covers.
Primary Sketching
I took my best ideas from my initial thumbnails and I refined them further. This meant cleaning up lines and working on compositions more. I really started to flesh out here the general ideas I liked which was loss of youth, contention, and being forgotten. You can see the way that the visuals evolved from draft to draft.
I didn’t stay super consistent with refining the same visuals that came from the previous stage of drafting, but I did find a lot of visuals that really caught my eye. From here you can see where I didn’t take some of them to the next step of the process, just because I really couldn’t see them as a cover, more as a poster.
First Draft
Final Draft
Here are the final book covers! I put them into mockups to better envision them as books. They went through one last stage of editing before this and this is how they would appear once printed.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I had a lot of fun with this project. It taught me a lot about the creative process while also maintaining a predetermined style. I also am a big fan of the book so it made it easier to really strive for a finished product that I was proud of.