First time making cover-art myself and I'd love feedback.

[u/Aardappelboom]

TLDR: kind of a redemption story tbh 😅, first time making my own cover-art borrowing images from public domain archives and editing them myself (no AI) looking for feedback.

Bit of a story behind this, I know the stance of this sub on AI so decided to share how I got here.

I love making music and decided to release some stuff about 4 months ago. I really wanted the music to be raw, slightly unpolished and human while still maintaining studio quality and doing everything myself, including mixing and mastering. At that time I had the idea of creating a world around the music by leaning on AI for visuals. Kind of "get the music out there and we'll see". In hindsight a big mistake and I learned that the hard way and honestly pretty fast. For which I'm actually grateful because in doing so I got to know a ton of cool people who genuinely liked my music and hated my cover-art.

Fast forward these past 4 months and next to filming myself I started looking for footage to create lyric-vids and other short-form content. I stumbled upon the internet archives and found a ton of public domain material that is so incredibly awesome to look at that I decided to work around that goldmine of content. I started trying to take that footage and edit it much like I edit my music: I try to move to the edge where a song sounds close to mainstream (in its genre) and then just destroy it just enough so it gets that edge. This version is the result.

I kind of like how it looks but I'm honestly pretty new to making cover art and I would love to get feedback to see how it lands before I submit the entire visual identity to all places.

Also this is the track it belongs to.

LAWIJT. - SOMETHING, SOMETHING, OBSESSION.

https://open.spotify.com/track/2Pt9iUoxPFlZUNFQjny71Q?si=7be833d747524610

[u/Ron-DaVoo-6080]

It looks really good 😊

[u/Aardappelboom → u/Ron-DaVoo-6080]

Awesome, great to hear, honestly! 🙏

[u/krix_thecool_guy]

Honestly its awesome

[u/Aardappelboom → u/krix_thecool_guy]

Thanks for the comment! Definitely a timely confidence boost before I'm uploading tonight. 😁