Another Castle

So I made a single, and it has Mario sounds in it.

New! Album Covers

Remember that six-track EP of mine from last year? (nope)

So I've tweaked some of the songs and even added a new one.  It's probably far from being a legitimate album by any means, but I feel like it's more complete now.  So while I'm still actually messing around with some of the songs I've decided to make a new new album cover since the old one totally blew balls.  And that's what this post is about.  The album cover.

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So just fucking around in photoshop this probably took a couple of hours (of messing with ideas).  And hey!  I decided to make a reverse side in case anyone needed track info.

So enjoy these covers and please pee yourself in anticipation of me releasing these songs again.

P.S.

Here's a link to the old shitty album art if you're actually interested.  I do believe the link to download the album is not functioning any longer.

FUCKYEAHMUSIC

"We Are Here" Album Covers

Awhile ago I designed some album cover ideas for the band Ladysoal.  They're from Ames and their music is kind of hard to describe, but it definitely rocks.  Anyway I've decided to post some of the drafts I came up with on here (they didn't get used).  Again, these were just ideas, not final drafts.

This is one of the first ones I came up with.  I originally had the sun in the center of the image though, and decided that wasn't interesting enough.  There's a song on the album called "Sunshine" (it's actually on there twice) and the album title is "We Are Here," so I thought this image would be a good fit.  It's a sunrise, and the three people are sort of watching it, as if they think it's fascinating and beautiful, and the sun is very important to them.  Since this is Ladysoal's first album, I thought what better image to represent it than a sunrise. (Ignore the tiny dot in the middle of the sun)

I don't really know how much I like this idea.  I thought the writing inside/around the sun would look cool, but I think I was wrong.  Plus with this idea it's almost necessary for the sun to be in the middle of the image, which I already decided wasn't interesting enough.  I liked the font, though, so it stayed.

I decided to try something simple, and made this in about a minute.  I used one of the color schemes that I found on Kuler, although I don't remember which one.  I think this idea was pretty cool, although it reminds me less of Ladysoal and more of some 1940's sci-fi propaganda poster or something.

I took the color from the sky, emphasizing only the sun, because I wanted the sun to be the main focus of the image.  I did a lot of messing around with gray developing this idea, but in the end no one seemed to like the gray and it didn't make me think of Ladysoal at all.  Besides, when the sun rises, it should fill the world with light and color, so this image basically defeats the whole purpose of using the sunrise to begin with.

I like this image a lot.  This is a gray I can live with.  I think at this point I decided to go more abstract, which is way the oranges and grays are alternating.  That's also why I kept the black lines from the last idea.  The lines don't really mean anything, but I was exploring how they would look, since I thought that without the lines the last images just looked like I failed at making gradients.  The lines looked nice, so I kept them.

I brought the blue back since it was missed, but I kept the lines and the sun's coloration.  This was the cover I think I would have used, since it made the most sense with the music and theme of the album, and was one of the nicest looking.


Anyway I had a lot of fun working in Photoshop again, even though these didn't get used.  You can check out Ladysoal at their Facebook page, or at Ladysoal.com, although I'm not sure how often that last page gets updated.  Check them out and let me know if you think my cover idea(s) were a good fit for the music.