Fresh start

I have decided against my first idea and came up with a new and possibly better idea. 

The idea is basically to make my own set of album art and film posters using the 60s psyche inspired style, the full write up will come later. For now here is a few ideas that i have knocked up for one of my old favourite bands "The Cribs"

I wanted to think of an original idea for the front cover of the album that didnt represent the original artwork at all, My initial ideas are all sketched out trying to find out what ideas will come out best. Above was an idea for the disk cover, the mouth is to represent the lead singer of the cribs Ryan Jarman as he was noutorious for splitting his lips mid-set and his face and clothes being covered in blood. Tried to get that sort of psyche style by making it abit OTT and not really that realistic and adding the shouty waves radiating from around it.

I took the first idea and using inspiration from some of the 60s psyche gig posters i created this. There is alot of use of wavy odd lines running throughout it. To make the band name and album title fit in without losing the look i fit the lettering into some of the shaped lines i drew in which i think it turned out pretty well. The type is all hand drawn using the groovy psyche style fonts that i have been looking at.I want my work to looking true in the psyche style, but i want to experiment with it aswell so i took to hand drawing the face of the singer, I intend to use this delicate but messy scribbled face onto some solid block colour to get a contrast in look and texture. Some of the drawing didnt turn out so well so i intend to edit bits out when i get round to using it in the computer stages.

Some more ideas to fit alongside the face idea previously. As the character is smoking a cigarette I thought it might be a good idea to use the patterns and type coming out the end of the cigarrette like smoke. Another way i can put in the bands name and album title. The image on the left is also another disk pattern idea. The band hail from Wakefield in which they are pretty proud of and alot of the time the come out to a crowd chanting "Wakefield, wakefield.." so i tried a spiral effect using this chanting coming from small to large. Could do with re-drawing this, some letters dont really look right.

Theres more to come yet, this is just a base idea.