Over the Holidays...

I have been hating myself so much aha! I had completed a fair bit of my album cover by the end of last term, putting in a lot of detail ect, I HAVE chosen my font its just a Windows one and so my Mac based programmes don't have it.

Album front before Holidays.

Thats what I had, and I wanted a pot of sunshine at the end of the rainbow, to go with the whole title of the album ect and to reinforce the genre / our buyers as being not materially driven ect and thus the traditional gold is replaces by sunshine. Its a catchy album title as it builds off of the whole 'pocket full of sunshine' and 'pot full of gold' thus making it memorable and somewhat catchy. 


I don't think I had thought through the whole pot drawing thing, so I just experimented with various techniques and ways to try and make it looks decent! 

The programme Pixelmator which I have been using for the drawing of the pot, it contains some of the basic tools that photoshop has.

Luckily I had a pretty clear idea of how I wanted the pot to look, but on some of my attempts it just didn't look right.. 

By using the selection fool and overlapping different shapes / cutting away different shapes I got a pot shape I was happy with, then I created my own gradient using light and dark browns to attempt to make a 3D looking pot.
I zoomed out of this picture after creating the pot to discover it was actually soo teeny tiny, I was kicking myself for not thinking about how small that edge of the rainbow really was! 


I redid the pot in the same position but made it about three times the size of the first one, I used the same tools until I had a larger version of the same kind of pot drawn out

I then filled the middle of the pot yellow and created a gradient that was spherical with sunny colours and varieties of intensity which I played around with for a while but couldn't find a place I really thought it looked good in, when I zoomed out I wasn't too happy with the result, it just didn't look right and I realised this was because of the weird angle of the pot and the too perfect circular glow all around it. 

Soo, I redid the pot (in the same way again yes), but I had it on it's side facing to the right, it looked far better this way already, I then experimented with various 'smoke' effect brushes to create a glowy look around the pot, on photoshop at college I will add some white glowing tints as well to create a more sun-like effect, 

A pot full of sunshine.