First idea development

Music and the mind

I wanted the violin to be made off neurons escaping the brain, with neurons oozing out in drops. And I was going to make the brain out of music notes. The whole chimera thing had me stumped and I kept falling into the hole of making the brain out of objects, like music notes or neurons. When I was working on it in photoshop it started to look quite violent and strange, and didn't illustrate what the book is about. So I scraped this, went back to looking at other popular psychology books and saw that I needed to make a cover that looked elegant and sophisticated to fit in with the genre.