I actually really like my outcome for this album cover, I love the rich colour scheme (rich being intentional) with the white space. I just think as a composition and overall image it's good to look at. I also like the context as explained earlier, how they seem irrelevant but is literally exactly what the song is about. I think sometimes extremely literal is a good road to go down, because people try to be so sideways that it actually ends up confusing and meaningless.
I'm really glad that I decided to do portraiture for this album cover because I do think that it's a big part of my practice and maybe why I didn't like the previous two covers that much. This is something I should think about when doing more album artwork in the future.
Initially I didn't like how you could see the paint brush strokes in the background, but now I've looked back at it I think it adds texture to the image as well as showing that it is a handmade piece of work and not made digitally. It almost makes it feel a bit more human.
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