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Apparently this Alvin Schwartz guy is something of a children’s book author, and mostly dealt with folklore and stuff like that. He is often confused with the other Alvin Schwartz, who was involved in Batman and Superman and stuff. Not the same dude. Weird. Today my wife and I were at an art store looking for book binding materials. Nowhere close to us carries it so we went for a little drive. I found what I was looking for and then some! Needless to say my mind was on books today, and when it comes to hardcover books I wish I could remove their dust jackets and show them in their canvas form. I think the designs below the dust jacket are 99% of the time WAY better. So tonight when I saw this book on my shelf I thought “I wonder what it would look like underneath the dust jacket if it was a hardcover book?” So this is what I think it would look like. Clearly it would be canvas wrapped, and then the skull and red type would be Foil Stamped in to it. But not a gloss foil, a nice matte. I used my wife’s 1970’ish Vogue Sewing book for the texture, I scanned it in and made it a black canvas instead of the cream it really is. The skull is a download from ScyberSpace Designs.
Tonight I used a little more photoshop than usual so it looked more “stamped” with the shadow and all. I also put in the crease along the spine where it bends. I had the extra time so I went for it.
Size: 6″ x 9″
Type: Notre Dame
Software: Photoshop & Illustrator