My final artwork is supposed to look slightly 80s and dreamlike and I feel like I achieved both. In the middle of my design there is a borzoi dog which is a Russian hound that would be hunt things like foxes and wolves. I decided I wanted to pose the dog so it looked like it was in the middle of running, like it was hunting which is a reference for the song hounds of love which is about being hunted by love. This might seem a literal and that’s because it is, but I enjoy that, and I enjoyed exploring the imagery of the dog. For the piece I wanted to convey Kate Bushes dreamlike quality of her music, Lyrics and presence. I did this by making some of the things blurry by using motion blur, gaussian blur and adding a grainy texture. I also knew I wanted to the album to be purple has I feel like that purple is an iconic part of the original album artwork. Something did not anticipate in the project is that when I was working in procreate the colours looked different when I transferred my designs to photoshop and this caused a bit of hassle as I had to play about with hue and saturation a still didn’t look the same, so in future I would allow myself more time to make sure that my work looks the same in both programs.I also tried to be more bold and simplistic with my design to make it look like it has a more graphic style which i think works well . Overall, I am happy with the project as I tried to go outside my comfort zone with going simpler and in a more graphic style than what I usually do  

Though the illustrations are Iron Maiden inspired, I did not try and make a carbon copy of that style, I wanted the cover to still look Punk, so I did not match the colour pallet of Iron Maiden and other Heavy Metal albums, instead I decided to go with more punk influenced colours that were neon yet dirty looking with a lot of green and yellow, to make the final cover look more like its own thing while giving a nod to both visual associations of Punk and Heavy Metal styles. 

A huge inspiration for my album cover was the original album cover for The Velvet Underground & Nico (aka The Banana Album).  The banana print by Andy Warhol was specifically designed for this album as he became manager and producer of The Velvet Underground. The banana is over ripe and is starting to become bruised, this bruising spreads throughout the banana. The colour yellow also tends to be associated with happiness and life, however, the contrasting black shadows brings themes of decay and death.

The back cover features the figurine with a bunch of bananas in their hands, showing that they were intrigued by the object and wanted to know more. By taking out the question mark, it shows that, by taking the banana out of the picture and having it in their hands, it’s meaning becomes clear. This is similar to the experiences people have after they buy and listen to the album. The limited colour palette (yellow, balck and white) differentiates it from the front cover and makes it more of a side image to the tracklist. After a lot of experimentation, I chose to continue the white colour scheme onto the back, rather than making it yellow or blue, as it all felt too busy and muddled that way. I decided to create handwritten text for the larger text, to make it stand out, while using a simple, san serif font for the song titles themselves, to make them uniform and easy to make out.