Cool Simple Drawings for Notebook Covers

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After roofing your well worn paperback volume, with a used brown, paper bag from the grocery shop or from a roll, yous should design the book cover. This article shows you how to design a book cover beyond only writing the title and author.(If all else fails, you could cutting-and-paste or employ the computer to practice it).

Steps

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Look at books on the cyberspace, at the bookstore or at the library for some ideas on how to design a book encompass. Also look at magazines, pamphlets, the packaging of products from the supermarket etc.^[1]
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The simplest method is to align the championship and the artwork to the left border of the book. With this method, fifty-fifty if the title and artwork were smaller, you would still align it to the left (the spine side).

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A common style of alignment is where the championship and artwork is centered. This style is harder to practice and you will accept to use a ruler and pencil. With the pencil, make the initial lettering of the title, and if yous are satisfied, become over it with a circular tip, blackness marking pen.^[2]
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For an interesting placement of the championship, place information technology on the right side. To residue it, place the artwork to the left. The artwork can also be placed in the center.^[3]
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Simplify the pattern from the examples and pattern a simple book embrace. You lot volition need an inspiration for your artwork, choose a picture to depict that relates to the championship. Search the dictionary, the cyberspace, the yellow pages etc for something to describe nether the title.^[4]
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Use a round tip, blackness marker pen to depict. From the photo, the words "comprehend design" can exist replaced with the writer's name, the book publisher, the volume edition, etc. This simple volume cover design required, in materials, just a ruler and a marking pen.
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Endeavour other ideas, if you do not want to letter of the alphabet the title or draw the picture: ^[5]
- Print the title and utilise a font such every bit Times New Roman. With the title printed on white newspaper, you will take a lot of contrast as a bonus.
- Print the artwork from the cyberspace, utilise a photo, or cut out artwork from the newspaper, magazine, yellow pages etc. Printing your artwork with black ink on white newspaper will also have great dissimilarity.
- Choose and print the artwork first, subsequently arrange the size of the lettering of the title, and then that it volition be in harmony with the picture. Black is always a practiced choice for the color of the lettering.
- Make a simpler artwork such as an anchor instead of the ship.
- Technically make the lettering precise. Artistically, make your comprehend pleasing to look at.
- Use a multi-colored scheme for the championship.
- Instead of artwork, utilise a photo or a flick from the cyberspace, of the actual book cover. In this photo, the title was not cut perfectly and past framing it the uneven cutting would non be visible. Frame the championship likewise with a marking pen and a direct edge.
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Finally, in the design process, take your fourth dimension and bask the procedure. Protect your book cover by covering information technology with articulate, mailing tape such equally in the previous photo. The contents of your textbook are more important than the cover, study hard!

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Question

If I want to create encompass art for a book my friend and I are writing, can I just draw information technology in colored pencil and pencil and and so go over the outlines in pen?

If that style suits you best, it will be fine. Remember, this is your book, so its encompass should look nonetheless yous desire it to look.
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Tin I digitally make a book cover?

Yes. Digitally made book covers are quite common these days. Paint Tool SAI is a skillful program to use because of the corporeality of item and piece of cake editing it allows yous to do.
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Would it piece of work if I drew a picture on paper and glued the paper on the book cover?

Jamie P.

Community Answer

Information technology depends. Are you making a real book that is going to the public or is it just a schoolhouse thing? If information technology is just a school thing then that should be something you ask your teacher. If it is a real book, you will need to find a publisher. If your book passes the publisher'due south requirements he/she should find you a cover designer, who will create the encompass.
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I need to create a cover for a book that is already made and I don't have any ideas. What exercise I do?

Hire an artist through an online site like Chore Rabbit or Fiverr, or download an app to create a embrace.