Artist research - Dave McKean

Dave McKean is an artist who is very talented, being given the chance to create CD covers for artists such as Machine Head and Alice Cooper. His designs mainly concist of what looks to be photo manipulation, to give a direct impact to create a reaction to the public.

As you can see, these CD covers look part gothic, due to the darkness and mysterious images of people within the designs. The use of fire, and manipulating the people's faces to purposely make you feel abit odd looking at the image, but in a way thinking it looks pretty cool and creative.

Some of his designs do look quite simple, for example the image above. It is a portrait photo, of a person who has had their face painted white, and a leaf placed infront of her, whether it was during the photo or done after in a photo editing programme. The eye's have been made fully black, and the border and background made dark to give a sense of gothic, but to also focus your eyes onto the person's face, for the reason that she has black eyes with a red glow to them.