Ideas for album art

Today I decided to start trying out ideas for the album cover. My initial ideas being a close up of the artists face, either eyes or mouth. The first one is just to get idea of the style and word placement, hence why it is a little dull. For the second image I then added some colour and lips, as a sort of logo. I thought this made it look a little more girly, however as our artist is meant to have a grunge style I thought this wasn't the right look for the artist

I then tried out something that I thought might look a little more edgy, using a 3D effect on a photo of lips. I thought this created more a feel of the style I want, however I felt it did not look professional enough or close enough to the style of pop album covers.

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Original image

So I then started to try overlaying photos as this is what is usually done to create a more professional look. I also added colour to the eye make-up to try to sync it to the idea of the glow scene in the music video, thereby making it more of a combined marketing campaign than just an album cover. I then played around with text glow, which I thought helped to make it link into the photo rather than just looking like added text.

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Finally I played around with the placement and boldness of the artist name a lot. the first change being from darker to a gradient. Then i moved the text to the upper left corner, and then split over the 'I LOVE IT!' title in the middle. Finally settling on both words together at the bottom.