drafts of my cd cover

I created a draft of what I wanted my front cover to look like when I produced it using Photoshop. I decided I wanted to keep the graffiti background on the front of the cover, to keep to the theme of our music video and it also creates a synergy between my products. I wanted to use a close-up photo of my artist as when I researched other hip-hop CD covers; most of them had close-up pictures of the artist looking at the camera. This will draw the audience attention to the CD as well. I also researched what else a CD cover has on it so I included a barcode, a parent advisory sign for ethical reasons, as some of the words are rude and are not censored.