The Picture of Dorian Gray

Bring in my love for reading into this project. The project was to create a moderized version of a classic book. The Picture of Dorian Gray was a book I read in high school and I remember how much I enjoyed it. I wanted to bring in the elements from the dark theme of the story into the cover.

Purpose: Redesign a classic book’s cover

Programs: Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop

Project: Book Cover

Year: 2024, 2026

Preliminary Sketches

Taking the dark theme of this story and bring them to life with my sketches. I knew that this story has to do with a picture that Dorian Gray does not like and haunts him. So I wanted to bring that idea to my sketches. But also I did not want my book cover to ruin any major plots of the story.

Color Palette

The color palette was to be moody and gothic themed. The dark colors of black and brown to add to the moodness. While the white and tan are a netural colors of the book cover.

Final Design

The final design became the a hardcover book jacket. I had created the front cover back in 2024. From there with update throughout this year I added the back cover, the jacket flaps, and the spine. I used the simlar colors found in the front cover to bring the rest of the book cover jacket together.