Designing the Cover Pt 2

I already knew that I wanted the back cover to be simple with just the information displayed on the copy I owned - the majority of my time was spent experimenting with the composition of the front cover.

 The above cover felt a little unnatural and top heavy

 One of the covers I felt worked best above, with the important text directly by where eyes are drawn (straight underneath the most vibrant patch of colour)

 I really liked the above cover but felt the text was hard to pick out.

 Adding a boarder of negative space around the text seemed to help, but the text seemed to be too all over the place, too scattered - I didn't quite know where to put my eyes.

 At this point, I felt the text was taking over too much of the artwork.

 Another instance of not quite knowing where to look - two bodies of large sized font in two different places didn't make a good mix.

This was my personal favourite - I felt it was bold and stood out quite well, however there was a problem - it simply did not contain all of the necessary information, as there are two copies of the necronomicon (both different books) by H.P. Lovecraft (whose name itself is an important selling point). I was a little disappointed that this did not work, but was still very satisfied with making image #2 my choice.