Durham Fashion Week poster

So i have recently been obsessed with drawing mandalas because i'm a secret Hipster and obsessed with patterns.

I drew the image and realised it looked like stained glass. Which led me to do this poster for a short Durham Fashion Week poster brief that came up in class. This won't be submitted, i just wanted something minimal for my port folio.

For me, this is minimal lol. I stopped myself going overboard in the background anyway.

A little piece to go on my wall.

Since i had already spent an age doing the outlines for this in illustrator and only using it sparingly in the album artwork i decided to colour it and mount it for my wall at home.
Hopefully you can see the influence of Kris Davidson here who is an artist i mentioned in an early post.

I'm really just experimenting with editing illustrator images in photoshop as i have found a lot of my illustrator work can look too flat. I know that is a fairly obvious risk with a 2D image but i need to learn to polish my work. I feel that everything i have done looks a little unfinished. This is something i need to improve on if i want to produce any work worthy of being used by clients.

I would also really like to produce more artwork for sale to subsidize my existence, i have a long way to go.

Final album art mesh

Final, final artwork aslong as the band doesn't hate it.

This has been printed out and mocked up with a blank CD and case and it actually looks pretty good, it takes a lot to make me happy with something i've done so hopefully this will go down well with the client.

I will get some pics of the CD case to give you all an idea of how it looks.

There was a little nightmare when i realised the orientation of the back and spines was wrong which meant i had to re-organise all the type to keep everything in the right place. Just waiting for the actual track list and copyright info which just need to be typed in.

Now i can move onto another project :)

After going back over this piece i can't helping getting over the fact that it needs refinement but i can't for the life of me work out what i need to do to it.
As a font, i find Garamond Pro a little unnecessary for this but it was one of the few things the band really wanted so i was limited to what i could do there. I think my main issue may be with the parchment background, while there is nothing immediately wrong with it i think it could have a little more going on with it. It looks almost like an afterthought which is sad because it really wasn't.
 Next album cover i design will definitely have a more involved background if the band allow it.
All in all, i really enjoy designing album covers and i definitely want to do more in this area.

HSC album art

Finally got round to putting the album artwork together for Human Sacrifice Club.
Still haven't gotten the track list so i improvised, there is some other text needed aswell that i'm waiting for the label to provide.

Not sure on the text colour or the use of 1 font, i think it could look better with 2.

Anyway, have a wee look.

I'm quite pleased with this, hopefully the band won't want a thousand changes haha