I thought it would be cool to walk you through some of the steps I took to create this album cover for Tuf Luv. This isn’t a tutorial as it only briefly goes through the main steps… all the work done between those steps is left out. Bare in mind, this is an album cover, not a mixtape cover which are too often is filled to the brim with cuts and glows. 

1. First we have the original image. The photographer has taken care of the lighting that they want on the cover along with a few effects. This is the picture I got sent to work on. Photo credit: @ShinesFresh

2. Now to open the canvas for the front cover and work out what placement of the photograph works best. I went for him to be in the middle. This was the maximum the image would shrink to and fit on the canvas otherwise I would have opted to show more of the image. One thing I didn’t like is the lampshade, it ends up looking like a black box at first glance, but more of this later.

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Trailblaza approached me knowing exactly what he wanted for his cover art, after seeing Effie’s ‘Lonely’ single cover. After a couple of mistakes which turned out to work great, this is his cover artwork for his latest EP presented by the prestigious clothing brand Oxyrotin. If you like your hip hop you WILL like this EP so stream or download it here.

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Harmony Muzik releases her Gen X [Uncut] mixtape today via bombonem.com today so go and check it out. Track list after the jump!

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Simple, clean and bold single cover for Team Mask’s latest release.

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Here’s the single and the artwork for Brad Tanners latest single ‘Party in the sky’ produced by Certified and features Elim. Listen/download below. I was originally going to do a whole party scene on the roof top but it was starting to look like one of those over done, crammed, mixtape covers – not the sort of look they’d be wanting for a single, so I went with something a little more simple.

Brad Tanner – Party In The Sky (Feat. Elim) (Prod by Certified) by Certified_Music

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This is a second version of the album artwork for Ashley Noot’s Throwing Away Your Love songs, and isn’t the final but I thought I’d still post it. Basically Ashley’s management changed their mind on what pictures they wanted to be used for the album art. For this version we dropped the pinks and went with a stronger red and bokeh to match her Song About You single artwork.

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