2nd album cover evaluation

2nd album cover evaluation 

Earlier this week in our media lesson, we had the task of creating an album cover from scratch. In my last post I talked about my preparation by attempting to create one earlier. I was pleased with it, but thought I could do better, and wanted to try from a bit of a different angle.

 I chose to make an album cover for a new band, but only have on person on the cover. I chose psychedelic rock because I wanted to work with all the colours, patterns and shapes i've seen on so many albums, like these: 








I had a basic design idea: a closeup image of me at the front and then lots of colourful objects and patterns behind. I though it would be easier to draw it, as i'm not very experience with photoshop or anything like that. Here are some photos of my design process:

I used the app 'Procreate' and started by tracing a picture of me, so it would be easy to get everything in proportion. 

Then I started sketching out everything, like the mushrooms, strawberries and my hair

After that, I started adding colour into the foreground

And then on another layer, I added in the background colours, some more details, and I was done with the drawing!

Finally, I added the name of the band and of the album, in the font: 'Shagadelic', because I really wanted to make it look like a late 60s psychedelic album cover. (I also continued to use bright colours)

 This is the finished album, and I love it! I think it's so eye-catching, and gives off the exact right vibes I was going for. I would've liked to add a bit more detail to the background, but wasn't able to because of the time limit. 

My teachers could tell what genre it was straight away, and i'm so glad they thought it looked groovy. They said the colours were great for what I was doing and they especially liked the font I chose. although as it's the first album, they said the band name should be bigger than the name of the album, but it was in the right order.