Colour/ texture experiments

Playing with the texture of bananas

After my crit I wanted to play with manipulating images and textures to create a single visual; I decided that I could initially start with an image of a banana, as it has an interesting texture and links to the book itself. 

I manipulated the image by adding grain and playing with different colours; I decided to invert the image and develop a juxtaposition of colours with this design. I also wanted to add some negative space by positioning the image in the corner; the only issue with this is that it somewhat has an unbalanced composition. As well as this, I'm not sure if these designs are appropriately playful enough for the tone that I want to set; they fit in with the contemporary atmosphere, but have a slightly formal tone to some extent. 

This design features primary colours to have more of a playful atmosphere, and uses yellows attribute to a banana. I quite like the juxtapositions in this design, and the impact of the negative space; it adds more depth to the design which is an improvement from the flatness of my past cover concepts.  

This cover design focuses more on the idea of earth and a natural colour scheme, yet taken from the texture of a banana; this creates quite a subtle reference, which covers two aspects of the book itself. As well as this, I added some text; I don't really like the effect of this text, as it doesn't have much of a contrast with the background, and looks quite flat. I need to consider how I could involve text with these visuals, and possibly develop the visuals further - there is a certain element of the designs being too abstract, which might not be appropriate for the audience.