Final Piece

Making the Final Piece

For my final piece I started from my final draft. I then changed the background with a different colour and texture until it looked how I wanted, I then added new hand drawn border of runes to the  front and back covers.

I wasn't happy with how the celtic design or the tree on the front cover looked so I found a different design then drew it out myself,  I then added it to the front and added colour to it. For the inside sleeves, I added the border as a texture background at low opacity. Then I placed my tree in the correct places on the back two covers (top left & middle) so I knew where to place the text. I then added all the appropriate text for the; tracklist, thanks, artists, producers and the title of the album. I then added the remaining important parts for the front cover, such as the barcode, explicit warning etc. 

I then moved on to the inside covers and made a design for the cd area (centre) from the original celtic pattern by flipping it and connecting up the lines correctly so it fitted with the heads showing above and below the cd. Then using some of my other drawings, I added a nice simple design to the other two parts to finish my final piece. The right hand side, I decided to add the mountains moon and stars as the imagery for my album cover because it fitted with the songs, I used for inspiration and they looked nice.

Final Draft

This is my final draft, i printed tout and took pictures o gain a better idea of how it could be improved for my final piece.

Written Study

Landscape Poster

I made a landscape poster to go in the sleeve of my digipack. I made it very minimalistic leaving as little a possible as i could on it, the background colour is the same as the colour on my final piece with the same texture over the top. The tree I used is the the same one with the runes in similar positions (along the top and bottom of the poster).

After I'd changed so much on my final piece from my final draft, I had to come back to this and so I updated it to fit better with my final.

Further Drafting

Typography Layout & Colour Schemes

This top one is looking at placement of type and looking at how it affected the front cover when you changed the positioning. I was using Black, White and Red from my earlier drafting as I thought it was a good and appropriate colour scheme to use as it fitted with the genre. I did try reversing the colour scheme as well but I thought that on the whole it didn't work as well. The whole point of these was to get a more realistic idea of how my final piece would look.

I inverted the colours to see how the contrast changed and if the covers looked at all better. I also played with adding a shadow to it, as you can see on the left cover.