Illustrator | Title Text

I have decided to continue with the font I chose in the first part of my font research; Mardian_Demo.

I found this font on dafont.com through the calligraphy category and it is now one my favourite fonts. I think it really suits this book cover design because of its hard serif style that so well compliments the other evil features, but then the swooping artistic lines of the type face add an element of class which is also featured in the book. 

After typing the title out I then had to work around the spacial restrictions of the cover. After some moving around I decided to have the title broken up into 3 parts as can be seen below. I really like the way I've positioned the text to look as if its behind the trees in perspective because it gives a great feeling of depth of the cover. To finish the title off I added a rectangle behind it so it had something to contrast against. I again went for a cold stone colour for it to continue the cold feel. 

Title Text

Below I've inserted a screenshot of the progression so far. I'm really happy with it after adding a few more trees in the background to give them some weight and I've started adding snow onto the branches because I feel they don't blend in very well at the moment. 

Progression