Digipack Lyric Pages

In an earlier post I mentioned that I was incredibly fond of the Linkin Park lyric pages from the album 'Living Things' because it featured an incredibly illustration which accompanied the text and generally made the piece appear much more pleasant. I wanted to incorporate imagery into my piece somehow so I used images that match the theme of the song, I'm finding it to be quite interesting, some of these will of course be tweaked slightly and I will point out any possible changes I really feel I want to make as I go.

 The first page of the Lyric sheets is 'Castle of Glass', I used a vector of broken glass as it seemed appropriate, the original vector required its color inverting but I think this is a nice effect in general. The shades aren't too striking but I think that they make enough of an impression to give the page a bit more of a punchy character and they alleviate the boredom of their being simply text.

The Second Page of the Lyrics is for the song 'Sympathy'. I'm still not 100% sure on the design for this one, I'm not absolutely settle on the pencil shading, as well as how bright the colors are given the topic, a feasible solution would be to replace the color red with a darker shade as well as the green stem, I may not change this but currently I think this may be better suited to the topic if the color was darker.

The Third Page is for the song 'Winter Storms', I'm quite fond of the simplicity of this one and the only thing id really like to change is how bright the white lighting is, I'm  not sure if I want the image to overpower the text like this, I also think that the branches are too sharp and clear, I would like the edges to be a little rougher to accompany the 'storm' concept of the song.

While I originally had difficulty with this page because of what I thought the word 'Avarice' could be connoted with, eventually after a brief talk with another individual, I decided that a blood diamond would be appropriate given how they are sought after due to their substantial wealth, yet the acquirement of one ends up in death. I enjoy seeing the strong sharp lines on the edges of the diamond as it makes each section stand out.

In its current state i'm not entirely fond of this design, to me it just appears to be too bland compared with the other images, the issue is what exactly can be used to connote cruel intent as it is rather specific.

I will post on this again when changes and tweaks are made.