Week 5 in Digital Media: Album Cover

This is a prototype album cover for my band Crimson Rice. I say prototype because even though it is finished for the moment it is still a work in progress. I designed this with the idea that if we were to come out with our first album this very day, what would it look like.The yellow/orange like colour scheme for the whole cover is based on the instant the background picture was taken. It was taken before we played our very first show (the very first show we put on and sold ticktes for). The title of the album "Red Knights" comes from a life long obsession with star wars the whole band shares.  The'Knights' part coming from the term 'Jedi Knight' and also a word play on the time of day, 'night'. The 'Red' just comes from a variation on the colour crimson which is part of our band name.I think one of the most important parts of the cover was unintentional, is the sculpture in the background. It is call 'The Pieta', by Michaelangelo. The show we played was in the basement of a church which is why they had it there. This is significant to me personally because my favourite band and life long heroes Rush, played their very first gig in the basement of a church as well.
The font I chose for "Red Knights" looks like it has been etched ans scratched in, my hope was that this font gave the the impression of that "Teenage Angst" that many teens talk about. When we write, we like to stick to things that we know, that "Angst" is part of it. So hopefully a teenager who feels the same stuff we feel looks at our cover and is able connect with it, even if only on sub-concious level. The faded picture of human like figures is actually the band itself. I wanted to have our faces in it some way so that people knew who we were, not a new brand of rice coming out or something. The purple in the band name "Crimson Rice" is used for a few reasons. Firstly,  because purple is one of my favourite colours and secondly I thought it contrasted very well with the yellow/dark orange colour scheme. For this particular piece, everything seemed to jsut fall into place. I had the original idea before I started and it turned out even better than I first expected. The colours didn't need any adjusting and all the layers complimented each other very well.

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