Album art analysis

Below are some album covers I took inspiration from when creating my digipak/ album cover. The first is Eminem's Relapse album cover and the second is Drake's Nothing was the same album cover.

Eminem Relapse

Eminem's face is situated in the centre and is the focus of the cover drawing the viewer's eyes directly to him, immediately recognising the artist. This highlights his face, important status and power/dominance. The face is distorted in some way and appears to be created from 'pills' which at the time was a controversial topic for the artist. Before the release of this album Eminem was supposedly having 'problems' with drugs which he recovered from and then relapsed after the second divorce of his wife and the death of his best friend. After recovering from his relapse he then published the album. This image of the picture relates with the name and nature of the album and his situation in life.

Drake Nothing Was The Same - Deluxe

Drake Nothing Was The Same - Standard 

There are separate covers for the different versions of the album. The cover uses artwork to create a picture, appearing to have meaning. For example it can be inferred that the child is the young persona of Drake, as he stated in a previous interview he wanted to go back to his roots. Drake's face is also centred in the middle of the cover highlighting his importance and status of album. It also allows fan's of Drake to easily identify the artist of the album. The artwork also provides a collectable feel to the album cover encouraging fans to purchasing the hard copy of the album.

These and other album covers inspired my creation. I wanted to create an album cover that resembled art of some sort and was connected to the song/video.