Set Project: Book Cover painting

 Here it is! The Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club book cover. Proudly, it is almost the finish of my long-running troubles and misconception.

Unfortunately not. The cover has the most complexities in comparison to all rest. I needed to paint all page A4 with a little cassette of watercolours.

My ideas regarding this page are far different. First of all, I took a lot of effort to make characters of fab four. Considering the small details in facial shadings and wearing, I needed to start doing it first. Moreover, in the first post with colouring, I mentioned all the essentials that I have in my room. These are - acrylic colours. 

With acrylic colours, I can cover larger fields, in this case, the background. I have written before all colour specification for each place. That was one of the not too many right decisions in this process.

I was thinking about what to do with the title ''Lonely Hearts''. I decided to wipe it out. Nevertheless, I will create the rest of the titles in the software and taking advantage to recreation the rest. I think the titles will look more saturated and will catch the eye of the viewer.

When it comes to the background, I reckon, that it is much easier to manipulate the acrylic. I can make a 'watery' base, so it can implement the texture of the watercolours.

It seemed to be a quite reasonable solution, however, extraction of pure colours in watercolours are not that simple. The most detailed part with faces was the most difficult. For a moment Paul looked like Asian. Moreover, the bad light only got it worst. For this reason, I left this painting for the next day.

Here I captured my mistake during the painting. Which transformed Paul into Hitler, because of this moustache. It is generally hard to recognise the watery base with the number of pigments. 

Fortunately, I could add water on the surface and wipe out the moustache.

To help myself by not using only graphite, I used a yellow watercolour pencil. It did not make that much dirt.

I had a problem with the pink cloud shape in the back. I decided to firstly colour it with watercolours, same as with the strips underneath.

This part of the proccess I regarded to design the drum. 

From the beginning, I have pictured it in light green/red shades.

As I planned, I fill the background with yellow acrylic. However, this somehow destroyed the boys' appearance. In the meantime, I introduced some textures with watercolours. Which improved the overall look. It synched up the imperfections.

Also, I decided to saturate the strips and finally painted colourful confetti on the sides.

The final piece does not appeal to me, I think that I have mixed too many elements and inspirations. Possibly the research was too extended. Anyway, I will try to fix it in the software. I hope that the long titles will not overdone the picture. If so, I will try to reestablish the primal version.