After processing my initial thoughts of the brief, I started to draw up some quick pictures of what I thought my cover should include. Although I did make a few drawings, I quickly got fed up of drawing things that already exist, as in, drawing a skeleton for the sake of it. I was focussing on the form of the skeleton, rather than the actual craft, a mistake I feel I made during the previous brief.
Rather than drawing simple vignettes of skeletons that I could reference anyway, I went on to focus on the actual design. I found it really useful to actually plan out the rough scale of the book and draw within those boundaries, that way I could already get an idea of what type of image could work.
I continued to use the template of the book cover to work out where I would want the images and where I wanted text and information.
Struggles
The main thing I am still struggling with with this brief is actually illustrating, I feel like I should be illustrating an idea, and almost feel like I'm cheating or going half-arsed by just illustrating something which is already there.
Answer: The idea of the book is to make the evolutionary traits of the skeletons more apparent and interesting by creating movement in them. This is something I think i should be illustrating, the idea of movement.
From this, I think I need to look more at HOW I'm drawing, rather than WHAT. The form could be incredibly simple, something like a snake, but the way in which I illustrate the snake need to portray movement and action. (Try loose brush strokes).
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