Concept Album Cover
A conceptual album or single cover for my spotify playlist.
This is a concept for an album/single cover I did entirely in photoshop.
This started because I was taking a photo at night and by chance, the photo came out completely burned and yellow. It looked like this:
I thought that part of the light in the right looked like a skull, and I got the inspiration for this cover.
First I converted the photo to a monochromatic image, so I could see better and paint easier. Then, I darkened the image, looking for the aesthetic I was thinking of. After that, I made some changes to the image so it looks like a skull. I darkened the eye sockets and where the nose should be and I shaped the white spots beneath the skull more like teeth. It came out like this:
Luckily, I was looking for a more rough and dirty look for this, so I didn't worry much about the quality of the image. After all, the source of the image is a burnt photo. Also, it was planned to be seen in a Spotify playlist cover, so it will be 5MB max.
With that done, I could get crazy. I started to add color. I played a little with the dispersion tool for the brush in photoshop and the variation of color to give random colors to the image. Then I liquefied the layer and continued playing with it. I put the colored layer above the image and started to play around with some blending modes. This is what I got:
After I gathered some feedback, I decided that the skull was not clear enough, so I reduced the opacity of the color and duplicated the color layer. Then, with the second colored layer above the original, I erased part of the color in the skull zone of the image, so the color stay the same everywhere except there.
Then, it was clearer and, in some way, it fits better with what I wanted it to be. The last thing to do was the lettering. I looked for a text font that fitted with the cover. I tested different compositions and text fonts until I got a result I liked. This is the final version of the cover:
I added the Parental Advisory sign for a more "album look". And with that, I finished the cover for my spotify playlist.
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