IOW #39 - CD Cover

[Andrew Sonea]

Illustration of the Week #39: CD Cover

This is a week and a half topic. This topic was suggested by Angel Intheuk. Have any topic suggestions? Post them in the suggestions thread!

Topic
This weeks topic is CD Cover.
Your task is to choose an album that you love, and illustrate a front and back cover (inlay optional) that best represents the bands image and style of music.

Deadline
The deadline is Sunday 11th of November, 23:59 GMT

[CountBlackula]

This sounds amazing. Can't wait to start.

[Sonfan]

Awesome!! Maybe mixed media.

[CountBlackula]

I'm gonna do "Bloom" by Beach House. Listen to one of the tracks here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuvWc3ToDHg

Here's a sketch. The album is very ethereal and dreamy, so I'm trying to cook up some relevant imagery to go along with how I interpret their sound.

[CountBlackula]

This is a tough one. The prevailing artistic style on this site is representational, and a lot of album art is abstract and crazy. I think I'm being held back by not wanting to make anything abstract, but I don't know if I have much choice, either.

[Sonfan]

At the very less you have an idea, It took me this long to pick just the song-The Crystal Method - Now Is The Time. I say go crazy, if it works it works!! Abstract is a style of Illustration after all. A very simple style but very strong composition based style. Do yourself a favor too look up a high res cd template.

I'm doing a 3 sided cover just for the fun of it, that way if one of the covers don't work I have one to fall back on.

if anyone else needs it here is a link...

http://www.1800zapdisc.com/templates...r-Template.jpg

[Sonfan]

This is what I came up with, The Crystal Method are like techno so my theme is dance and music. The girls are dancing and listen music, I may just change the band to a dance techno band. May just play around with more thumbnails, for the most part I plan on combining them.

[first0]

Shiny toyguns, III wip.

not sure how it will end up.. this is pretty much the stage where i start losing derection, C&C very welcome

[Care]

hi this is an amazing topic i was just wondering does it have to be in an illustrative style?

[first0]

Im not sure yet on how far i should go on shadows/highlights and coloring. The main goal is focus the viewers attention to eyes and the guns i think, any thoughts on this?
Also, i havent decided if i want a full picture on the back or just some shapes, would it lead to too much distraction if i did a backview of the front illustration on the back?