Before jumping into Photoshop I sketched out on a small A4 sized template what I wanted to create:
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- I change the information panel's making it more in keeping with the hospital theme. The photo is of the inside of the medical cabinet within my house.
- I wrote onto some index cards and tore the text out - scanned this in and then edited it onto the DigiPack to give it a DIY vibe that is common to the bands genre. This was inspired by the subhumans who hand wrote alot of their CD inserts - in particular the rats cover where the word "Rats" is in a fake torn out bubble.
- I used a previous test photo for the cover & "cartoonized" it. This was inspired by other covers (Bark like a dog & Dookie). Therefore it is common within this genre of music.
- I also decided to give the album a title "Making you sick", tying in further with the hospital theme.
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| My medicine cabinet. I gave it a slightly dulled texture to give off a sick hospital vibe and draw attention to the text. |
For the final product my inside cover was also changed from the original sketch as I wanted to create something political. This is similar to the Dead Kennedy's Fresh Fruit (which contained a cover of the White Night Riots) or NOFX's War on Errorism which directly parody's politicians.
In order to achive this I used the same paper scanning in technique (for the megaphone aswell as text) and also made Callum pose the way I wanted against a white wall. That way I could crop him out and put a drawing of a politicians head ontop.
Below is the cropped out Callum and my draft drawings.
Here are some scanned in words before being cropped and placed onto the final product:
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