Sketches and Ideas for CD cover

I've decided to put my head down and sketch anything that comes to mind for the CD cover. I've taken pictures of my ideas (because my scanner wasn't working) on the blog and I've annotated them:
1) The first idea was having our artist in the middle of the cover and it would be taken from a mid-long shot revealing her figure and clothing. The idea was to show that she is a popular artist hence the flashing cameras and the red carpert look/effect. I wanted to almost juxtapose hollywood's idea of glamour and fame (expensive clothes, makeup, clevege etc) as appose to dancehall's look which is mainly tight fitted revealing clothes and exaggerated jewlery.

2) The second idea I had was to have our artist taken from a mid-close shot. This is because in the video she's mainly shot from a mid close shot with would then correlate well with the CD cover. The idea of her lifting a hat of her head was that the hat would represent a male of which she's taking off as she doesn't need a man to be successful or to pull her back. She would wear similiar clothes to what she wore in the video so that she can then have a fashion mark which intially lead to bigger profits as she could go into promoting these objects/props which would lead to bigger profits and more awareness of her as an artist.


3) My third idea was that the artist's picture was a close shot only revealing half of her face. This is because she's upcoming and new - not a lot of people would know her. I beleive it also adds mystery to her as a person as she is an underground/unsigned artist. She would wear a tiara simply to represent and symbolise her name 'Princess Landa'. Her name 'Landa' would be in larger font to show that her name is 'big, well known and popular'.


4) For my forth idea I decided to go for a different approach and maybe use an image of the artist when she's laying down (landscape). I like the idea of her laying on her name - it would make the CD cover different and mroe interesting. In some way it shows confidence - as said in her lyrics she doesn't depend on no one but her self. I would use the little crown on the 'Princess' or on the 'Landa' to reinforce her name of 'Princess'. It could also be a logo of her name instead of the whole two words (this could lead to other promotions such as clothing lines for example having a logo of a tiara/crown could be made by Princess Landa).