Puffin Book Cover for "James and the Giant Peach"

Brief: produce a book cover for Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach that would not look out of place both on the shelf of an upmarket bookstore or at the local supermarket.

I explored many idea pathways for this brief, starting with:
The Characters:

The Peach:

 The seagulls and the sky:

Developing the Cover:

Further work:

After receiving feedback, I was asked to go back to my nighttime peach scene. I worked more on this and produced another, completely different cover:

"Picturing Time" - Frozen Webs

After receiving feedback about the previous cuckoo-clock design, I was asked to go back to my sketchbook and work on the frozen web idea and use this as my final instead...

I ended up producing six new frozen web designs, allowing me to experiment along the way and chose the most successful as the final "picturing time" illustration.

 Later on, I made some of my favourite webs into Christmas cards:

"Picturing Time"

A very open brief to simply create an image that shows time. After many possible ideas I chose to design a cuckoo clock using the rotation of the seasons.

Final piece; A3 watercolour paper