Coming into designing the cover I already knew several things; I wanted the cover to look fairly unsuspecting and innocent as well as keeping it simple. All I wanted on the cover was the title, my name and Ollie Owl. Below are a few concepts I came up with:
These designs were good, however they did not capture my imagination like the final one.
This is the final cover design. I chose it due to it’s simplicity and some what subtle second meaning – it could be taken that a young child or drug addict wrote the title. Seeing as the book is about drugs, I thought it would be fitting to use this design.
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