The first admittance- I am not wholly aware of the book, its tone or its plot. Which is instantly a hinderance, and not the best decision to go ahead with a cover in this state.
Harking back to my Murakami days of OUIL504 I have been trying to make simplicity and abstraction work for me now. I think it suitably conveys the dark tones, in a way that my wilder more fully formed figures may not be able to.
I went through a few colour variations settling that a dark green has more interest than black, whilst presenting a more readable option than the dark blue.
For the final image I redrew the symbols with a pencil, in the hope that some texture would make it look a little more natural, and importantly for me, in keeping with my visual language. All in all, I'm fond of the face, but think the spine and back cover imagery is a little awkwardly placed and coloured. I would go looser with the face also, and make it a little more expressive. It's not quite there.
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