Pride and Prejudice Book Cover

One thing I've always wanted to do work for is book covers, but had yet to try my hand at it so I wanted to try a self-directed passion project with one of my favorite classics, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I wanted it to have a slightly folksy feel, and had a clear vision for the reverse portraits on either side of the title. I was initially going to do only the front cover but wanted to be able to have a full book 3D mockup so I tackled the idea of doing a full wraparound design.

Value and Color Comps


For the colors I ended up leaning towards a combination of 1 and 4. The teal was a clear favorite, but I got a suggestion to keep the warmer cohesiveness of 4 but introduce a bit of the cooler tones on the characters from 1 to make them stand out a bit more but keep that warm, antiquated feeling.
Final COver

