study task 3 drawing the detectives - book cover

As a study task i was asked to create a book cover for one of many Agatha Christie novel as part of the Guardians celebration of what would have been the authors 125th birthday. At random i chose the novel "Sad cypress." As i had not read the book before i had to research to plot of make sure my design was accurate. The story is about a series of murders taken place through jealously and over money, and in the end a murder is taken place by poison being put in someones tea.

I took some inspiration from already existing book covers 

this is my finical design. i decided that the design had took much detail and was too obvious and gave a lot of the plot away.

Here is my final design, i thought it was a lot more successful than my other as it was simplistic and had a limited colour palette so wast over complicated.