Thursday, February 12, 2009

CD cover: Aretha Franklin

Yes, I designed a cover for The Queen of Soul herself!

This was a super-rush project; I was given a scan of her photo at 3pm, had it cut out of its background and composited onto the Capitol Building and American flag by 3:30, and sent the art off for approval by 4. Aretha had a really clear idea of how she wanted the cover to look, which is what we ended up with.



Just for the fun of it, here's the other, funkier, concept sketch I sent:

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