This project was a book cover design for a novel, by award-winning reporter, Steve Swatt.  The novel was about a reporter solving a murder mystery happened at the capitol in California.  The author wanted to use the state capital building.  This was a self-publishing book, and I didn’t want the author to spend a huge amount of money on stock photos.  The challenge was: how do I avoid using copy righted photographs of the state captiol, yet without a two-hour drive to Sacramento?   The solution was a hand sketch by me base off a snap shot took by the author.  Diagram above showed the layering of how this cover was composed.

Paperback, black and white | 336 pages | Trafford Publishing, 2009 | 0.7″ x 8.4″ x 5.4″