Ok so after a few final tweaks here's the finished image.



And here are a few variations on the logo.





The Title logo I was working with before was created as a place holder and I felt never quite captured what I was going for. Below is an example of the sort of thing I'll do in illustrator. I'll make a variety of alternative versions of a logo. I'll play with sizing, kerning and other relationships all slight variations on a theme. Then I'll narrow it down to my 3 top choices and shop it around to a few folks to see what they think. In this case the general consensus was that the top one worked the best. The third one got a lot of reactions as well but I think it would work better in context of a chapter header, so I'll save it for later use.


And here is the finished thing.




the earlier version of the title treatment I had come up with had a relationship between the logo and the image but I felt lacked room for title dressing but also lacked the grittiness or movement I had been trying to achieve. Obviously Title dressing can be placed over top of any image and in anyway you want, but I was looking to place the text over a stark backdrop and to have room to play with negative space to help convey the mood of the book.


Obviously this was not a detailed tutorial more look into process but hopefully you found it useful.


More soon.