The easiest way to find some artists and ideas for my DVD cover is to look at CD album artwork. Many artists have professional graphic designers and photographers to create them, depending on the style of cover they want to be displayed.
One artist who's design is very simple, is Julian Opie. His style of drawing people is very basic. He will take a picture, and then draw around an outline of them, adding any additional features such as lines for hair and circles for eyes. Then he will add some fill for skin colour and recently some shading for lighting. It's nothing too difficult, but if you want it to look good then you'll need patience to make it work.
As you can see, the designs are deffinitely constructed from simple outlines, but its what you put inside the outlines that make it constructive and challenging to design. It does deffinitely create a nice effect, and the definite bold black lines around every part of the character work well to create a cartoony image of someone.
After roughly 2-3 hours, I was able to create one from an image of myself. The hardest part was making it look like the image which I was working from. The outlines were easy enough, but it's when you need to add the detail that it becomes difficult, but I guess that's expected.
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