As rare as it is, minimum software rendering were involved in this cover design. Everything was hand composed, photographed, and then scanned and put together in Photoshop.
As a reference, it is a story taken place in a parallel world of Tokyo in 1984 “An unnervingly silent teenager captivates Japan with her mystical literary debut. Two long-separated lovers hurtle towards each other through the discontinuity of time and space. A second moon appears in the sky.
Nothing is as it seems in “1Q84,” Haruki Murakami’s 2009 genre-bending novel.” (Quoting from the book review by Leanna B. Ehrlich) . To me, the book seems almost too soft and poetic to be a mystery novel.
The sketch I made after I first read 1Q84 in 12th grade.