Ink it up!

I am now happy with my image for my front cover, but i feel like the image as a hole has lost the relevance to the to the metaphor from the novel that I firstly based my book cover on! I think that I need an image included that hints at the wolfs character (nurse). I have considered, with the thought in mind of the rabbit hole being central on the front cover, that i could involve the wolf by adding a shadow of the wolf over the hole book cover? at the bottom underneath the title add some wolf ears or some feet poking out. This idea will add the feeling of authority, insinuating that the wolf is looking down at the rabbit, by putting the reader in the eyes of the wolf. 

All my testing will be shown on the next post. 

This above is an image that i took of the internet to test my vision first off, I liked the idea but this wolf foot doesn't look enough like a foot and i would need to redraw it anyway, as its not my illustration. I have tried out a few hand rendered ways of showing the wolf's presence by using watercolour. 

Here i have tried to make paw prints by painting my fist and pressing against the paper. I wanted to make a print that look a bit abnormal and had the same colours as the main illustration. I scanned this image in to the computer, something didn't look wright, so i made the paw closer together and darker, i put this with the image and i did't think that they matched very well. I didn't think the composition worked, it was all a bit too busy. I then tried the shadow of the wolf, I scanned in and tested, I found that by overlaying the shadow that it made the hole image very dark and that is took away the detail of the illustration already on the front cover. 

Below i have shown some hand rendered type that i simply did with watercolour and a paint brush. I found this very successful, I considered putting this on the front cover but i found that it made it all very busy. I tried the text on the back above the blurb which i found much more successful, I feel like it breaks up the page.  The image of the wolfs hand scraping down the page would look great on the page, I am visualising it creeping up from the right hand side, the scraps could be positioned so its scraping the rabbit hole, this will lead the readers eyes from the top of the page nice to the tile at the bottom.  

Ihave shown the rabbit hole that i originally illustrated to combine with my watercolour printed holes and the white rabbit. I have had a few attempts at the hole, I like the original one. The black hole and the gradual lines swirling outward, this illustration has the write amount of thin and thick lines, you can really imagine that you are falling down.