Please crit this album cover I've made (approx. 1 mb picture file)

Oliwerko · Thu 27/09/2007 12:24:36

Messy. That is how I call your album art. It is not so bad, it is just messy. ManicMatt explained it exactly.

MrColossal · Thu 27/09/2007 15:40:32

"The reason why some the images are a little hard to figure out is because I've scaled down the image to fit the forum."

But it'll be even smaller on a CD cover?

I don't really have an opinion on the art. It's a mishmash of things that you probably had a reason to include but I can't really extract it from the image.

However, I want the shirt that guy is wearing. I love the penis monster.

If I had to pick the best imagery out of this cover I'd say the central "slave" boy, the penis monster [he'd make a nice icon for the band] and the eagle with the sphere connected by a tube to it's head. I like that last image a lot.

Other than that the design is really haphazard. Things are just stuck in places. It looks like you made something and then looked for a place to stick it and then just crammed it in there. I am of the opinion that chaotic art could still use a bit of planning and composition.

Andail · Thu 27/09/2007 19:40:22

Quote from: Nacho on Wed 26/09/2007 10:18:02
Quote from: Andail on Tue 25/09/2007 15:59:47
Quote from: Nacho on Tue 25/09/2007 12:48:13
I don' t really like to see the image of an event who killed 2,500 people, really...

Why?

Eeer... well, It was a sad event for me... I wouldn' t accept an image of iraqui babies blowed by an american bomb, either... I would think as those image just as a cheap trick to make the cover more "intellectual" creating controversy, but for me it only looks like that, like a silly cheap marketing trick.

Agreed, partly...I was just curious what your prime reason for not liking it was. As in, didn't you like it because it's cheap to include controversial stuff in promotion art, or didn't you like it because you got personally offended by viewing such content.

I can't really see the controversy when the event is simply represented, just as it happened, and not tagged with political sentences or other symbols.

You say that you wouldn't want to see Iraqui babies blown apart, but if we consider that such material would be much more graphical than a distant building on fire, I'd still say that depicting it can't be inherently immoral or wrong. It all depends on the context. I mean, isn't it good if people keep spreading pictures of events that deserve to stay in our memories? As long as they don't pee on them or turn them on fire?

I didn't mean to stir up polemics here, just asking you to not offer automatic replies (like Mrs Lovejoy in Simpsons with her "oh can't somebody think of the children!!") without elaborating why you say it.
Thank you

Evil · Thu 27/09/2007 21:38:14

Quote from: He-Man on Thu 27/09/2007 08:27:27
Thanks for all the replies.
The reason why some the images are a little hard to figure out is because I've scaled down the image to fit the forum.
Too bad that most of you don't like the image because it's too weird or chaotic. Actually I thought that it should have more chaos. I wanted it to look as f**ked up as possible...
Maybe I'm just aiming at the wrong audience here or maybe I just have bad taste.

I agree with the scaling down. I understand how that works. In print it always seems so much more clear and sharp.

Fucked up doesn't mean offensive. Partly because we don't know the music, it's hard to place this. If the band is anything like, say, Mindless Self Indulgence, the cover might make more sense.

I think it's cool, I really do. I think it just needs more movement. Maybe show the legs posed a bit more, or adjust the arms so he looks more in motion.

As for the whole 9/11 thing, it's not in ALL bad taste. I take it (because its not an American band?) that it's symbolic. It's just over the horizon and if we don't do something that it could happen here, where ever that might be. He's taking his baby and moving away from all of the crazy that is associated with pop culture and mainstream, to protect some innocence of the world.

It's not all "SEPTEMBER 11 OFFENDS ME!!1", sometimes it can be a heartwarming story. However a penis-shirted man can be heartwarming.

LimpingFish · Thu 27/09/2007 23:33:28

I vote for Penis-Monster. A simple flat-coloured background, and Penis-Monster ejaculating the bands logo.

It almost designs itself!

Huw Dawson · Fri 28/09/2007 14:25:01

What ever happened to people NOT making dumb adult jokes on these kinds of threads?

- Huw

Akatosh · Fri 28/09/2007 14:29:01

They're living in a funny house with lots of nice people now, a place where life is beatiful all the time, and they get to eat ice-cream every day and don't have to worry about anything anymore. If you gather my meaning.

Oliwerko · Fri 28/09/2007 17:49:18

Quote from: Akatosh on Fri 28/09/2007 14:29:01
They're living in a funny house with lots of nice people now, a place where life is beatiful all the time, and they get to eat ice-cream every day and don't have to worry about anything anymore. If you gather my meaning.

Yeah, nice expression. Well, I have seen more offensive CD covers featuring VERY disgusting things. Some metal bands have CD covers that make you vomit in 2 seconds. I think this can be a very nice one if it is organized a bit, like people before me said.

LimpingFish · Fri 28/09/2007 19:59:08

Quote from: Huw "I'm scary" Dawson on Fri 28/09/2007 14:25:01
What ever happened to people NOT making dumb adult jokes on these kinds of threads?

- Huw

I was entirely serious. The Penis-Monster is actually quite an interesting design. I don't usually go for this collage-type art, so the cover doesn't really appeal to me all that much.

But I think Penis-Monster is quite eye-catching.

mouthuvmine · Fri 28/09/2007 21:41:50

Akatosh: They're coming to take me away.

Haha.

On topic now... My only problem with the image is that there's nothing really catching my eye. No one thing.
In a bin full of cds, I would get to this one...and keep going.