Objective
Cover art is the visual gateway to music. It’s also the image listeners will associate with any music. First impressions are key to music discovery. Album art will often grab someone’s attention before they listen to the artist’s music. Understanding how using Adobe Illustrator helps to create and improve the artwork for the album cover. Creating good file structure and proper use of Illustrator tools & workflow, plus some creative image work & typographic skills in Adobe Illustrator
Process
We sketched out our ideas on paper and then refined our sketches in the thumbnail stage to create a most interesting design before setting our digital document inside Adobe Illustrator. Using Adobe Illustrator, we were able to make great vector files for our illustration that are scalable without losing any details when we brought it into any software or packaging and production. Using vector files, we were able to retain the quality of the artwork with the specifications & requirements of the document settings. We organized our workflow at the very beginning and checked again when exporting the final PDF files for the project before handing in our work.
