Thank you everyone for welcoming me back, and for all the thoughtful words!!!
I have a drawing to share with you all, please feel free to comment. This drawing is a CD cover for a Toronto (Brampton) based band called G13 who are into rock music. I am friends with the drummer and offered to design their second CD cover art. Having seen my past work he agreed without hesitation.
The main idea of this piece was to convey a pro-environmental message. However the viewer may take away whatever message they prefer. The subject is of a futuristic industrial world where smog filled skies and skyscraping machinary are the norm. (sound familiar?) The small lake and island are all that remain of the last natural bits of Earth, and if you look close enough, you can see G13 is having their concert there.
I first drew the perspective lines with some rough shapes of the buildings and such, and then scanned them. Using Photoshop I then added colors and details. I used as much freehand drawing as possible and stayed away from the effects tools Photoshop is known for.
The picture displayed is what you would see if you unfolded the CD case completely so that the front and back faces are side by side. The sides of the CD are shown as the thin vertical areas with the band name and CD title. (there are two, one for each side) These sides divide the picture into two, however they don't take away from the "double panel" design I had planned. The image on the right is the front and the image on the left is the back. Below the song list are credits and at the bottom is my credit (YAY ME!)
I created a thread just for this piece because it is in publication and could spawn future assignments! However you CAN comment here. Check out the thread if you'd like to read the comments viewers have left there. It's called "CD Cover Design". I'll leave you with the CD art now, I hope you enjoy it. Thanks!