OUIL403- Do Judge a Book by it's Cover- Roughs

Once I felt I had gathered enough visual information, both compositionally and through the actual content. I drew up 5 roughs, trying to make them as diverse as possible.

I kept the roughs quite vague, something I have found quite helpful when it comes to the crits, because I have an idea in my head of exactly what I want the image to look like, I think keeping the roughs really vague helps other people in the crit create their own picture of what they think the image SHOULD look like. So hopefully by sharing this information with me, I can take advantage of the different suggestions, rather than creating a detailed and finished image which could restrict other peoples thinking of the potential (this may well be cheating but I do find it helpful).
I tried to keep the actual design in mind when creating the roughs, rather than just the illustration, and thankfully got some pretty good feedback on them. The general consensus of the crit was the snake idea was the one to go for (this was also my favourite). I think the reason it works is because it will be the easiest to portray movement, and the simplicity is quite appealing and relates to the actual content of the book.

I also like the design of the title, using both the front and spine to contain just one title, so the title almost folds and flows with the book, again trying to create an image of movement.

I will use the feedback from the crit to develop this idea, probably look at the production of the image first and then look at the actual craft of the cover.