Emulation

After creating my copy on Illustrator, i created a emulation using the same technique and i used the elements that are to do with my subject matter, The Fault In Our Stars.

I placed my drawing of my subject matter, into a new document in Illustrator and i used the pen tool to create the elements of my subject matter. Before i filled them in, i just had a outline, so i could see what shape i was making and if i was using the pen tool correctly, to create the shape. After, i did that i filled the drawing with colour.

Next, i changed the background colour, so that i could make the emulation more to do with my subject matter of The FaultIn Our Stars. I went over some more of the elements with the pen tool and i filled some of them with relevant colours.

Next, i placed in some more of my different drawings of my subject matter. I chose some of the elements that i had drawn and i used the pen tool to create the element on illustrator.

Next, i decided to order the elements that i had created on illustrator using the pen tool. I moved the elements around and ordered them so that they look similar to the copy that i created using the same technique on Illustrator.

Then, to make my emulation look more like my copy, i put some text on the emulation. The text that i put on my emulation are quotes that are relevant to the different elements from the story and parts of the story which are key to the of, The Fault In Our Stars.

I made the document bigger, so that i could created the whole of the book cover. I decided the just use one colour and have the different elements different tones of the colour, grey. I decided to just use the one colour with different tones of it because i thought that the colour grey would fit more to my theme of my book cover and is more relevant to the fault in our stars.

After, I decided to just use one colour, grey. I coloured the elements on my emulation and I used the same colour but just with different saturations. For the spine Iade it into a tube, to fit in with the story of the fault in our stars.

For the back of my book cover, I decided to have a prescription paper on the back, as this would fit into the whole story and theme of my book cover, which is the adult in our stars and I thought that a prescription paper would be relevant.

I altered the back of my book cover, so that the prescription paper, looked more realistic, I changed the edges of it to make it look more like paper. Then I fill the back of the book cover with Loren Epsom, to make it look like the blurb of the story. I changed the typeface of the title, 'The Fault In Our Stars' and the name on the prescription piece of paper, 'Queen's Hospital Prescription' to a different typeface. I chose the 'Peach Milk' typeface as i thought that it linked well with the overall look of my emulation. To make the rest of the type contrast with the 'Peach Milk' typeface I chose a serif typeface for my other text, which I chose 'Always In My Heart'. I chose that typeface so that it contrasted with my other type on my emulation and was relevant as well.

I decided also, to add one element of colour to my emulation to make it protrude, so I changed the colour of the cigarette packet to red.

This is my final emulation piece that I created following the same style as my copy and using Illustrator. Finally, to finish my emulation, I added the name of the story, 'The Fault In Our Stars' onto the spine, I the typeface of 'Peach Milk', to write the name onto the spine.