Sunday, March 28, 2010

Interested in Your Opinion...

Although I like the cover as it was, I thought there ought to be something I could do to make it a little more 'shipwrightish.' The woodcut version I originally designed accomplished that, but it looks too bland to me now. (However, I do think it would make a nice title page.)



So, this is what I came up with:

Do the ‘boat plans’ in the background look too cluttery, or does it add that little something extra that gives a better sense of the story being about a shipwright?
 Which do you like better?
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13 comments:

  1. Susan R. MillsMarch 28, 2010 at 7:13 PM

    I like it better without the boat plans. Both are nice, so you could go either way, but the one without is cleaner, I think.

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  2. LizaMarch 28, 2010 at 8:37 PM

    I loved the original picture so much that I don't want to see it altered, so my choice is without the plans. Let me know when that picture is in a limited addition print...and then perhaps my meger bank account will allow for a splurge. Bridget, I really love the picture.

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  3. LizaMarch 28, 2010 at 8:43 PM

    Ugh. Let's spell that meager! Either way, it means, not enough zeros!

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  4. Paul GreciMarch 28, 2010 at 9:21 PM

    I like it better w/out the boat plans. It is sharper!!

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  5. JoanneMarch 28, 2010 at 9:35 PM

    I like it better without the plans. The beautiful image of the seaside town is so suggestive with atmosphere of a shipwright's life, I like it like that.

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  6. Tricia J. O'BrienMarch 28, 2010 at 10:00 PM

    Without the plans, for sure. I wasn't sure what the lines were until you explained it was plans. As an aside, I was at the Dana Point Ocean Institute where they have two full-size, tall-ship replicas, and the 118-foot schooner was built in a guy's back yard.

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  7. glnrozMarch 29, 2010 at 8:57 AM

    That is a great title page. The orginal cover (without the shop plans) seems to project the more "you" and digs an interest of the story. But you have to take my biased opinion into consideration. :)

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  8. J.B. ChicoineMarch 29, 2010 at 11:24 AM

    Thanks everyone for your input. So far, it seems to be unanimous.

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  9. Davin MalasarnMarch 29, 2010 at 1:15 PM

    I liked the boat plans, but I didn't know they were boat plans, so I'd vote to not have them too. They read as power lines and reeds to me at first glance. Have you thought of having just one of the diagrams, and maybe blowing it up so that it almost becomes an abstract pattern over the image? Just a thought--it might not work at all.

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  10. Davin MalasarnMarch 29, 2010 at 1:17 PM

    Sorry, one more comment. Maybe you could just have the boat plans on the back cover?

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  11. J.B. ChicoineMarch 29, 2010 at 5:03 PM

    Hmmm...that has possibilities,Davin--or maybe, I'll make a repeating 'boat diagram' design for the front and back end pages.

    oooo...the posibilities are endless...

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  12. Lydia KangMarch 29, 2010 at 6:18 PM

    Umm, I like the boat plans. And the woodcut it beautiful, I hope it's framed in your house somewhere!

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  13. J.B. ChicoineMarch 30, 2010 at 11:37 AM

    Yay! One for the boat plans!

    ...and yes, Lydia, we just framed and hung it a couple days ago :)

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