Responsive - designing

I know this image is probably used quite often, but I plan to design it in a way that'll hopefully change it into something unique. 

Keeping it simple by using the main colours of  orange, balck and white, I hope adds to the look I'm going for. I picked a brush that had texture, so I could try and create a grafitied look. The brush I chose is almost chalky or dirty, empashing the rough look and theme of the story and suggesting he's a dirty violent guy. 

I added a lots of black in some places, to create shaddow which suggests darkness and mystery. I worked further on it, but, in some places I didn't like how I'd done the shaddow, so i went back to get rid of the thinner black lines and I increased the brush size and reduced the opasity, and worked from there, building the colour up if I needed, just so that in blended nicely and not stuck out from the design.

I felt like there needed to be more on the background so I faintly added some cogs so that it was a constitant design, not just an image placed on a solid background.

I'm happy with my design now, I guess it is quite simple in the fact that it's nott incredibly busy, it's only the brush style that makes it look like there's a lots in that space. 

Notice the eye, I coloured it orange becuase I think the bold eyelashes attract you in enough, without there needing to be an extra colour, which I think would not make it look good.

Now I just need to take it into photoshop and add the text and make sure it fits to style of the book and what the company want and fits with the template given in the brief.