Goblin Market - Book Cover 1

I've decided to focus my freelance graphic design work on designing book covers for self-published and POD authors. I did this design of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems as a sample for my portfolio.

This is the classical version--I also did a more modern, "avant garde" version of the same cover:


Resources:
Cover image: "Proserpine" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Background texture: ~obeythekiwi
Christina Rossetti drawing: Wikipedia
About the author text adapted from Wikipedia.

Photoshop CS3, February 2010