Blackbooks Xmas

My week's project was to do a poster for Blackbooks Xmas.

I wanted to do something very simple: a white background, an open book with turning pages approximately in the middle and some playing around where to put fonts and what size.

I looked up references and started to work on that first on Illustrator but it didn't really look anything like I wanted to then I tried just drawing it with Photoshop and it still didn't look anything like I wanted :

So I abonded the idea and start working on the new one. I remembered this one pic from last Blackbooks and decided to use it as a reference for a pose. I wanted to draw a bear taking part of the event, having a book in its paws and reading its poem to the audience.

This either didn't turn out like I imagined. So the final day of my project and I abonded this idea do and started to work on with the new one. I went back with the original idea and thought of it more, and decided again to do the book in the of the white background and play with fonts a bit. (''Keep it simple, stupid!'') This time book wasnt open though. I wanted to do the book inside some a bit old fashioned Christmas gift wrapping and it actually looked even better than what I expected. It even was more suitable than my other ideas, because of Christmas theme and I couldn't have been happier with the outcome.