The document describes the process of experimenting with different designs for an album cover with a space/galaxy theme. It discusses several sketches, including planets, a drawing of the artist's face covered by a hoodie, and a snow globe design incorporating the concept of "souvenirs." The sketches show progression in rendering planets and galaxies more realistically. The snow globe idea is favored, with an interest to further develop it for the final cover design. Key elements like the planet designs, band name, and galaxy rendering may be included in the final product.

1. Experiments
Indie Chamberlin-Kidd

2. Process
- After my survey conclusions I started
sketching up ideas, this being the first
thing I ended up doing and liking.
- Because my Album cover/CD is
supposed to be space/galaxy themed I
thought I’d start with a simpler planet
design to hopefully spark some more
ideas
- I used a speckled brush/pen to create
the affect of stars in the background. I
added a like and dark side of the
planet buy putting a layer of white on
one side and black on the other and
then blending it out until it looked
more like highlights and shadows.
- I used a paint-like brush/pen for the
blending of darker and lighter tones
for the planet, making a quite realistic
look.
- I’ve done quite a lot of
practice drawing planets
as it’s a nice thing to
doodle
- I added a small highlight
to the already lighter side
with a few dots of white
blended out

3. Process
- This is the first big Idea I had, I don’t
know where I got the idea but I think
it’s quite a normal album cover thing to
do to cover your (or someone else's)
face with something such as pumpkins,
helmets, signs, etc. I have seen a few
popular albums like that.
- The galaxy-like drawing in the back was
my first attempted at drawing
something like/resembling a milky way
or something similar. For my first
attempt it’s okay, but I’ve already
improved my skills from it which is all
part of the process.
- I traced a picture of me wearing this
hoodie as I thought It would be cool if I
called the artist/band Dids because it’s
one of my nicknames but when the
results of the survey came through
everyone wanted something more silly
and random so I ditched that idea.
- I don’t like how cartoony it
looks, and how much the
black lines take away from
other things
- I did try and soften/blend
out the dark lines but it didn’t
end up looking much better if
better at all.

4. Process
- The first, “actually looks like an album
design” design, I came up with a
corelating album title and band/artist
name either for this experiment or
maybe for my final product.
- I added a few differently designed
planets to show diversity and not
have the focus only on one part of
the cover.
- I used the same dark and light,
shadow and highlights method as I
did in my first sketch, although a bit
dimmer and more realistic in this
example.
- You can see the new and improved
milky way/ galaxy design in the
background, more realistic, more
colour differences, more sparse but
also more filled in, still not extremely
accurate but you can see the
progress.
- I used a liquifying effect on
the lettering to give more
character
- I used the same font for
both titles, in a contrasting
white.

5. Process
- This design has only 2 planets and the
design on the small, almost burnt sienna
one is a little more similar to the pink one
than it is the other one like it in the first
proper album cover design
- This is my most recent quick idea,
Because I ended up liking the band/artist
name
“Your mother’s souvenirs” I decided to think
about what
Souvenirs/things I thought about when I heard
the word “souvenirs”
I could incorporate with my final product
design
- I added the same kind of highlight I added
to the planets, to the glass of the outside
of the snow globe
- I like this design a lot and I think that if I
work harder on it, it could become a really
good Album cover
- I used a wood effect on
the stand of the snow
globe
- It will be interesting if/when I
choose a colour for the
background of this drawing, which
will probably hold the titles. I
wonder what colour I will choose?

6. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you include in your final
product?
• I really like the planet designs I’ve come up with so hopefully I’ll be
able to use those
• I like the band/artist name “Your mother’s souvenirs” so unless I
come up with something a lot better soon, I will be using that.
• Hopefully I will be able to incorporate the design of actual souvenirs
into my product.
• I want to work on the milky way/galaxy design a little but I would
like to incorporate that also.