Creating album ideas

These are my album cover ideas. I have experimented with the images in the sense of choosing different poses, however unintentionally i chose female models but i feel that this goes really well with the 'femininity' of the band and song. However with practising the style of album covers i feel as we are a group called Canute that maybe we should have an image of all the group. However the simplicity of having one person not necessarily having to be the band could work better. As it would be breaking the typical conventions of band album covers.

I decided to use a grey scale colour to wash over the background image as i thought that if i used a brighter colour for the text it would have more of an effect and be more striking.

I like how the album cover at the top is quite eye-catching, the bands name stands out which i feel is an important feature. The image of the girl takes up the whole cover and i have reflected her image in the lenses of her glasses which i think adds an artistic and a different slant to the album cover, i have not seen a recent album cover done in this style which i think would benefit the artists.

For the second one, i decided to keep the tones soft as it works well with the image, adds an element of fluidity to the image. I decided to centre the bands name as it works with the image as her head is only half in the picture so it doesn't add or take away from anything else.

I kept the font type the same throughout so that there aren't to many distractions on the cover. Whilst creating these album covers i had to keep in mind the music genre of the band so it didn't deter from the indie-pop style. I did this by keeping the soft tones and the images are quite laid back but the text colours used are striking so obviously adds colour and an edgy feel.