Metaphor Cover

At my college there was an art book sold every year put together by a committee of students to show current students best work. You had to submit your work and it was judged to see if it was good enough to make it in that years edition of Metaphor. Every year there was also a competition for the cover art. If you won you got a cash reward. My professor always made that competition an assignment. The year 2013's theme was air.

Unfortunately with several moves since then, I've lost a lot of my work with this one. Above is the start of my brain storming. Below I've narrowed down my ideas. I think it was a fantastic idea, I just needed more time to work out the kinks.

I decided to interpret air as what we breathe instead of the element. My idea was to use a heart beat as my main focus. There were certain things that had to be included in the cover, like the name Metaphor as well as the school name and the year.

My first attempt wasn't too bad. I surprised myself. Obviously I still needed a lot of work, but at least I felt confident with my progression. This was a lot of fun to work on.

In the end I still needed more time to work on it. That's usually how it goes with life as a full time student. Overall I'm happy with it.