Based on the input I've received during my creative brief last week, I decided to scrap the 'spoon leaves' and to digitally illustrate sage leaves! Unfortunately, our instructor didn't take with her a pair of sage leaves to provide raw inspiration for the elements. However, performing visual research on sage crucially benefits me as it helped me understood its roughness! Not only did I apply just one kind of leaf in the cover, I've actually created originally three types of sage leaves to convey interest. However, there's already a lot of activity happening with the grass-covered fist, so I decided to implement just two of the designs of the leaf - one to accommodate the header, the other for the subheads!
The leaves were really a fun process of the cover, but tell me what you think! Stay tuned next week as I promise to post segments of my progress throughout my magazine.
