Cover to cover

I haven’t been posting much anywhere because I’m indulging in a fantasy of mine — designing album cover art.

I won’t recount the stories of my high school days when pretend bands made pretend albums with pretend cover art. Rather, I’ve been working with Acoustica to improve the tentative cover art for Eponymous 4 albums.

I didn’t make my cover art too complex because the software I used before, SureThing, was limited in what you could do. The straw that broke the poor camel’s back was an inability to support Asian fonts. So I switched to Acoustica. It has its own problems, but I think I’ve managed to improve on what I’d done before.

I’m no graphic designer in the first place, so I don’t think my cover art is all that great. But it does suit the kind of music I make.

Perhaps it would be easier to compare and contrast. The "after" images link to full-size images. The "before" images don’t really have full-size versions.

風の歌を聴け

Before …

[風の歌を聴け]