Final ideas - Booklet

My inlay/booklet design idea wasn't to make it too complicated i just wanted it to have 5 songs and images of the band. I wanted to try and produce images that would work well with the stencilling on the logo on the front of the CD. I was looking at artist and designers for inspiration i came across Julian Opie. Opie is a artist that is most famous for creating the album artwork for Blur's Greatest Hits album.I really like the way that he creates portraits of people, with only their dominate features, such as hair, eyes, mouth and face. I really liked this effect so for the booklet I got pictures of each band member and created my own Opie design. Below is the process..

I started off with these 5 pictures of the band. I didn't want the whole body in the drawing so i choose portraits of them as i though it would be simpler but also still very effective. After finding the right pictures, i traced around the faces with a pencil first onto tracing paper. Then i went round the pencil marks with a fine liner to get the correct detail and the computer would be able to pick up the black lines more than the pencil. Here are my tracings. 

Here are my tracings of the band members. After scanning them into the computer, I uploaded them into Adobe illustrator to make them into a live trace. Live trace means making the parts of the image are joined up with the line that their supposed to be with, then you expand it. Once i expanded the pictures I added colour to, making sure the colours matched the similar tones to actual picture. 

Above is the final outcome of the illustrations inspired by Julian Opie. I really think that I have created a good range of photos that still work with the stencil logo. I really think that having 5 songs on my CD will work well with having these 5 pictures.