Writing on the Wall - Elizabeth Ryan's "The Lost Winter" Book Cover
Writing on the Wall is a charity focusing on helping build community through writing. Elizabeth Ryan is a mentee author and for this project I made a concept book cover and page spreads for her book, "The Lost Winter". The book follows Finn, a teenager trying to survive an Earth 100 years from now, an Earth that is now engulfed in wildfires.
I was inspired by the world Ryan had created in her writing and wanted to bring that to the cover. I experimented with layering drawings, paint and paper and then burning those elements in different ways. Eventually I came to the result you can see above.
This cover was made to feel like it could exsist in the world that is imagined in "The Lost Winter", the burnt textures and rough drawings are there to reinforce this feeling. When the audience holds this cover in their hands I want them to be excited and gripped for the world they are about to enter when they open this book.
