TRACING!

I like to work in layers. Layers allow you to play with the composition. ensuring there is 'play' in your work keeps it alive. I use tracing paper to help me see how I might arrange different parts of the image.

See here the individual components and then below that the complied image (with bleed and cut lines) to be printed on the albums CD. Though you won't see it, the character will spin around in the player.

HAPPY WORLD BOOK DAY

More album cover work

You can see here the options I gave the band to give me feed back on - this was mostly so they could agree on a concept as much as anything. 

Having then heard back from them I am now starting to piece together how it might look. all my artwork is done by hand and then compiled in photoshop. Having this two step process allows for play both before it gets to the scanner and after. I normally create a number of layers to scan in, that I can then play with once they are imported. This is the art work I scanned in originally.

...and this is what I have ended up with at the moment.