I designed the cover illustration for “Kafka sulla spiaggia” by Murakami Haruki, a new special editon published by Giulio Einaudi Editore.
The cover is printed on two layers, a transparent acetate jacket for the typographic elements and the actual harcover for the naked illustration.
Thanks to Monica Aldi for giving me the chance to continue my collaboration with this amazing author.
The image itself is a digital compositing of a pencil and ink drawing (the boy and the cats) and a gouache painting (the sky).
Here you can see the illustrated layer with the final composited image.
This is an early design to mock up the acetate jacket elements position.
This is the final layout.
An early digital draft with different colour palettes proposals.
A study for the cover wrap around effect.
The digital lineart.
The pencil and ink underpainting.