Judge A Book By Its Cover

Today we were briefed on our new Visual Skills project which is to illustrate a new book jacket for a random book we chose from the library. The one I picked up was called Waste by Tristram Stuart, and the idea of the book is to highlight the ways in which people waste food and what ideas we can put in place to stop this happening. 

Here are my preliminary sketches for the jacket:

From this I refined my ideas into these mockups using newsprint. I've only gone for the designs that wrap the whole way across the cover as I thought it looked too boring with a smaller image. At the moment this one is my favourite, it shows the mouldy vegetables on the front and as the viewer finishes and closes the book you can see that at the back the vegetables aren't mouldy at all. This one is the most effective in my opinion I just don't know how realistic the mould looks.