CD Cover completed!!!!

Although I haven't printed the CD Cover yet I have finished illustrating it and also got it ready for printing.

I was originally just going to make it as a standard CD Cover in a typical jewel case but I decided to go with the carboard covers often seen on folk cds special editions and any others that want to be a bit different.  I definitetly prefer them to the jewel case covers anyway. 

Because of this the booklet changed slightly so instead of seeing this....

 

 ...you'll see this:

So basically when the cd cover opens you have the booklet glued in on the left with this as a seethrough first page.  On the right will be a card pocket for the CD to slide into.

The next challenge was the text to put on the front.  At first I thought I could use arrow shapes to go with the archery theme but it ended up looking too Metallica.  Then I tried doing kind of trre shaped letters which really didn't work.  Instead I went with rounded letters which I felt went a lot better with the whole atmosphere.  Here you can see I accidentally did a j instead of a g, oops.

 

 I got it right on the cover though.  I used the tracklisting page I previously made for the booklet on the back and stuck with the golden theme I had previoulsy ised on the text.

 Next I added the title to the CD sticker:

 

And finally I designed theCD pocket.  I just used the same painted texture as before to keep it all a good unity.  I decided to put the lyrics to their song Ancient Forest here as they were an important part of the concept and I feel they will add meaning to the booklet and help the viewer get more out of the concept.

 

 I have printed out the tree pages on the transparant paper; they look really cool.  Amazingly enough I only jammed the printer twice :P