There have been many versions of Neil Gaiman's Nevewhere book cover, so I thought, why not another? I wanted to focus on the aspects of the sewers and the forgotten, making the title the image and all the fogginess to make you wonder, "what's down there?? . . ."
Without further ado, enjoy!
Final Cover
Mockup
My process started with sketches based on word association.
"Noodle" pipe sketch. . . and a rat
Variations on the Title typography. Most of the work went into the "N, V, R, and W."
I changed the W again...
