Course project

My project in The Art of Record Covers: Illustration Meets Lettering course

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Initial sketching
Initial sketching
Thumbnails
Thumbnails
Final composition
Final composition
Refined Black and White Sketch
Refined Black and White Sketch
Final Design
Final Design
Final mockup
Final mockup

Thank you Steve for the amazing course. I personally learned a lot from your process. Very insightful and eye opening.

This is the final design that I came up with. I wanted to maintain an overall warmer feel to the composition so I included some orange tones in the color palette to balance out the coldness of the purple.

I did not focus too much on pixel perfect or accurate shapes. My intention was to keep the feel of the final piece a bit more hand drawn just to make it seem a bit more trippy and psychedelic.

Instead of just copy pasting a picture of Hendrix I decided to make a semi-realistic drawing of him instead. Main reason being to practice and incorporate the skills I learned from the other Domestika course that I finished about portrait drawing but I kept the coloring a bit more simplified this time.

I don't feel like I perfectly nailed down the tones and the colors. I found it quite challenging to work with purples and oranges that look good together.

Hope you enjoy the final design.

Cheers.

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  • displayname1611771

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    14.09.2020 at 12:40
    user1611771 surname1611771

    Hi David
    Thanks for sharing - congratulations on finishing the project :))
    Always good to see the progression - would have been even better if you had shared the sketches as you went along so I could have given feedback at each stage - small changes at the rough stage can make a big difference to the final project:))
    Overall it looks great - being picky :)) would have been nice to see a bit more variation in the lettering forms so it isn’t confused with a font.
    Love the texture of the head - you could have continued that texture over the rest of the design so as to bring the whole artwork together - making it feel more cohesive
    Your colour palette is Verny vibrant - love the way the colours pop!!!
    On the label, you could have added some of your border pattern in a circular way - just would help fill up the dead space a bit

    I do like this - would have been nice to see each stage as you completed it so I could have given feedback

    Thanks so much and best of luck
    Regards
    Steve

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