Natural History Museum

I have been experimenting with stocks and processes for the cover of the dinosaur books. I have tried some embossing, using a t-rex head stencil to press through the paper, this enables me to have the dinosaur on the over of the book but is subtle enough not to confuse the use of photography throughout contents of the book.

The embossing is fairly successful, some detail is lost especially around the teeth.. However I may well encounter problems when creating the embossing for other dinosaurs due to their much simpler heads, the embossed image would look so abstract it would be hard to tell what it actually is.