Deanna Staffo

Here’s the finished book cover! The figures just represent random regency era gossipers, not any particular characters from the show. I had a lot of fun illustrating food, which I don’t do very often.

It went through a few rounds of changes to make sure the image had enough impact. Up until this point, I had only illustrated book covers for The Folio Society, known for their silhouette style illustrations using minimal color palettes. This project was an excellent experience in terms of learning how a book cover image needs to have a lot of impact even as a tiny, digital thumbnail on an online shopping page. In the future, if I (hopefully) get a chance to illustrate another book cover, I’ll really focus on more simplified imagery and high contrast value ranges from the start.

Swipe through to see the original, un-cropped image, along with a wide range of color palettes we considered.

I’m really happy with the end result and love the embossed text on the printed cover!

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