In an attempt to rectify the problems with the old cover I tried to include all the features the client wanted (the colourful lines, the gramophone, the blue jay and the textured background). Combining all these features onto one cover was difficult and resulted in cover ideas that looked cluttered, unbalanced or like the design elements had been randomly stuck on with no relation to each other. This was the best version of the cover using existing design elements. I experimented further with the art brushes and using opacity effects. For example applying "multiply" to an object over the textured background made the texture bleed into the colour and gave the illusion that the design was marked or engraved onto this surface.
The problem with this cover is firstly the design elements don't appear to match. The rainbows are gritty and solid whilst the bird is detailed and hand drawn which makes them clash. The gramophone looks like it has no reason to the be there are the colour doesn't originate at the speaker it originates at the bird. Secondly the whole rainbow swirls design is way to busy and overpowering to the visuals. The colours are too harsh and the lines are too sharp, and there's too many of them. Simplifying design did improve the composition marginally but it still didn't look good.
Working from the clients has proven challenging as I have to combine several elements from different ideas that didn't originally go together. I've realized that I need to go back the origins of these concepts and redesign the cover with the new composition in mind.
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