Thumbnail sketches

The ideas explored in the thumbnail sketches heavily resemble the idea of childhood innocence, rural life and racism, with some focusing fully on typography. The typographic designs stem from a focus on branches and leaves in nature, with swirls and linkages to mirror their characteristics. 

I particularly like the idea of using simple children's drawings, particularly using the medium of crayons, to represent innocence and youth. The mockingbird depiction is too expected and obvious, and thus if I was to incorporate it, the design would seek to distort the depiction - for example using collage of stills from the movie (which has been merited by Lee herself). Moreover. simplicity is definitely key with this cover, due to Penguins history of cover art publications and thus style sought after. I wanted to capture this with maybe just the glasses of Atticus, which represent knowledge and age. The faces at the top, are meant to be experimental designs relating to racism, a theme that is extremely purposeful within the book. Most existing book covers do not touch on this, which is why I thought it would be unique and relevant to explore this side of the book. Nearly 60 years later, most people buying this cover would've already read the book, and thus this part of the story is already known.