Noah's ark picture book cover design update!

[Lee White]

nice looking animals, but that composition is killing me! I did a quick overlay to show the basic composition problems. You will notice the overall composition is just totally dead center. Then, almost all the animals line up on these horizontal lines which stagnates the image a bit.

Think about changing up your sizes and shapes a bit more to give the interest. Your animal designs are spot on so you have already done the hard part. Now I'd play a lot more and get a dynamic composition going. : )

[sergio]

What age are those images for?

[Beatriz "Bett"]

Lee, Is it wrong to have an image dead center? I am working on a children's book and will have a 7 month old baby on the cover. It should not be centered? It will not be in the cross-hairs.

Leontine - I love the animals on the ship. So cute! But the baby dinosaur sticks out to me... since dinosaurs obviously didn't make it.

To All - I don't understand why some people's names have the @ symbol before the name. Enquiring mind wants to know. Thanks.

[Chip Valecek]

I also prefer the first one and with Lee's comments it would make it even better.

[Chip Valecek]

@Beatriz-"Bett" When you click on reply next to the persons name it will tag the person in the reply by putting the @ in front.

[amberwingart]

Leontine, your animals are awesome! I agree with Lee's composition comments, but once you make a few adjustments this will be amazing! I'm looking forward to seeing this one finished...

[amberwingart]

@Beatriz-"Bett" I'd definitely check out the "Creative Composition" video - it explains the problems with a dead-center image and tons more! That lesson alone has totally improved my artwork.

[Leontine]

@sergio the age is 2-4 years

[Leontine]

@Lee-White Thanks Lee, I think you are right. As I tried to keep it simple for 2-4 year old. I probably lost track in creativity. Thank you!

[Lee Holland]

I think the 1st one with lee's comments this will be great for a book cover

[Rich Green]

@Leontine definitely go with a Noah's Ark theme for sure. Really looking forward to seeing what you come up with based on the input from Lee!

[Leontine]

@Rich-Green Thanks Rich!

[sergio]

@Leontine

Hi Leontine. I'm asking the age because I'd like to learn more about perception, visual literacy and levels of meaning for childrens.

I think if we are going to illustrate for different levels, we must learn what children can recolet from images in diferent ages, No matter if the parents will support the reading of the images or not.

As an example, I think in your image is not easy to recognize the boat and the animals are too close, like a grape cluster. I guess it could confuse a 2 years old kid. We recognize immediately the boat because we know the story of Noah.

I'm not sure about that, so I'd like to get specilized answers to that matter.

I love your style. I'll paying attention to the upgrades.

Cheers.

[Leontine]

@sergio Thank you Sergio! I've updated the first version. hopefully with color it will be readable for parents and for kids.

[Bobby Aquitania]

okay is it me, but somebody ate some of the pairs... oh and the alligators are smiling.

[sergio]

@Leontine, Great upgrade indeed! Everything looks more appealing. Loved the tonal scheme.

[Rich Green]

love the pig hanging onto the front of the boat!!! This piece is so much more dynamic now!

[Lee White]

There ya go!! Nice!

[Thrace]

@Leontine Its amazing, nice job!!!!

[Leontine]

@Bobby-Aquitania Some of the half pairs are in the boat, sleeping ssssst don't wake em up! XD