After reviewing my sketches it became a possibility to transfer the street-style to on-screen, during the creative process I thought it would be clever to include a modern adaptation of the original karma coma album. You can see from the two designs I did below that they are both reminiscent of dark creatures.
During this year I've definitely developed my photoshop skills, I was a keen enthusiast of photoshop in the past but I found it limiting, however now I've become successful at Illustrator, I've found myself using it a lot more, and I've been seeing the effects through my work.
Adopting the rubber tool with a faded outer opacity on a low tolerance makes it easier to blend the surrounding edges of the image into the background, especially a black background.
The shapes you can see below have derived from the set scenery of a Massive Attack concert, I'd also been inspired by the leaflet above which gives off a very dark and crazy aesthetic, perfect for the meaning of Karmacoma.
Distinguishing if the design would look better as a full image or slightly overlapping the label...
As a form of research I printed the vinyl covers onto a glossy paper, this meant I was able to visualise how successful the light bouncing off the designs was, and because of the nature of the design being 'crazy' and 'out of control' I thought it complemented more than say matte paper would of, I was also dealing with photographic imagery which aided my decision.
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