Cover artwork
Here is a first sketch, just to collect feedback about the elements and composition. A cleaned version with thin lines, shading will be done when all elements will be decided.
My first questions are:
- White male hands came spontaneously on this first sketch because probably that's what I experience from my P.O.V, but maybe something smarter can be done here. Something that represents something more (eg. box gloves).
- Computer: laptop, generic 16:9 monitor, flat/slim.
- Rendering: I plan for something black and white; with modeling/cross hatching in the spirit of the Oreilly books cover something that looks good on a ebook in a b&w e-reader but also online, and that can be printed for cheap.
- Format: All elements fit a square; the square can be extended on the top to contains a title font and author info for a vertical book cover version.