Book Cover Illustration Design-How to Make a Book Cover

How to draw the cover of a book

The method of drawing the cover of a book is as follows:

1 First, take a piece of rice paper, 4K is the best, in short it is better than a book Large, use a ruler to measure the length and width of the book cover, and draw the required size of the cover on the paper.

2. Use a pencil to compose the line drawing. Be gentle and draw the outline later. For composition, we can choose a main object to place in the middle and lower part of the cover, and write the textbook name in the blank space of the picture. , pay attention to the perspective relationship and the primary and secondary relationship.

3. Use an outline pen or a black water-based pen to completely draw the outline of our sketch. The lines need to be heavy and thin.

4. For coloring, it is best to use markers or colored pencils. These coloring tools are more effective. After the coloring is completed, do some details and you are done.

Whether it is a book cover or a novel illustration, composition and color matching are top priorities. The composition needs to have clear priorities, strong contrast, and great visual impact. You need to have design ideas in your mind before painting. Then use pencil to draw line drawings. The color combination should not be too many. Three to five colors complement each other. Too many colors will make it messy.

The front cover is the front page of the book, that is, the cover.

The front cover is the reverse page of the cover, that is, the back of the cover. It is mostly blank, and some may have text printed on it.

The third cover is the reverse page of the back cover.

The fourth cover is the last page of the book, that is, the back cover.

Generally, the first cover of books and periodicals contains the book title, publisher and author, etc., the second and third covers usually contain advertisements, etc., and the fourth cover contains copyright, etc. The cover is the name given to the outer cover of the book block after being bound into a volume. The cover is also called the book cover, cover, outer cover, etc. How to make a book cover

This is how to make a book cover:

Step one: open word.

Step 2: Click the Insert tab.

Step 3: Click on the cover menu.

Step 4: Click to select a cover style.

Step 5: Enter the book title, author and other information.

Step 6: Finally, click the Save button to save the document.

The steps of cover design mainly include the following four aspects:

1. Concept: Unify the design of the cover, spine, and back cover (front, side, and bottom) of the book.

2. Composition and layout: When composing a picture, we must carefully consider the priority, density, virtuality and reality of the text, as well as the treatment of the font, size and color of the text.

3. Draw precise text and pattern outlines.

4. Coloring: The color is required to be saturated, uniform and clean.

Design ideas:

1. Pure text arrangement.

Using text as a cover element can directly express the theme of the entire book. Fonts are usually redesigned and presented with a unique image. This method is suitable for cover design in various industries.

2. Text + image arrangement.

Insert a photographic image that matches the content or brand tone into the cover to highlight the theme. This can not only quickly deliver promotional information, but also achieve strong visual effects.

3. Text + graphic arrangement.

Added graphic design to the cover can enhance the artistic and formal sense of the picture. For example, some topics cannot be conveyed by concrete pictures, so abstract graphics can be designed to express them.

4. Text + illustration arrangement.

The advantage of illustration form can be understood as hand-drawn graphic illustration is that it has rich imagination and free creativity.

5. Text + color block arrangement.

When the picture appears hollow or monotonous and increases without adding other materials, the coloring area is a way to increase the layout rate with the least amount of time to increase the richness of the picture. The cover of The Story of Zhuo Ya and Shula painted by the famous book illustration and design artist Lv Jingren

Lv Jingren is a famous book binding artist and famous illustrator in China. He was born in 1947 and serves as a professor at the School of Engineering at Tsinghua University. and visiting professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He was rated as one of the top ten famous book designers in Asia.

In the late 1970s, Lu Jingren designed an old book in his early days. This book was a storybook about the famous heroes Zoya and Shura during the Soviet Patriotic War.

The interesting thing about collecting a book is not only the content of the book, but also the connotation of a book that is worth pondering, such as the binding of the book, the cover and the design that match the content of the book. The illustrations inside are very interesting.

If the designer of this book is a famous person, the book is a classic or an old book, and the book has a sense of nostalgia and a remarkable appreciation, then it is worth collecting a copy.

When searching for books, a book evokes the aftertaste of the past time in the heart. Going back to the past with the book can evoke people's clear memories of the past time!

(Zhuo Ya This book was republished in 1979. The cover picture was designed by Lu Jingren. The painting style is a bit facial, which is caused by the limitations of the painting pattern of the era.

Lu Jingren later designed a large number of book covers, showing his rich creative talents, and his book binding design became more and more exciting!

(Pictures taken from the book collection of Rational Career)