Digipak drafts

Front cover draft:

This is the rough draft of how I want the front cover of my digi-pak to look. The original artwork I have drawn up and added colour to on Photoshop, will be the main element on the cover, with no images of my artist to be used here. I want the front cover of my digipak to be fun, bright, colourful and eye-catching, so I think my artwork is perfect for this, as it is fun and attention grabbing. I think once it is all in bright colours, it will look really effective and will fit very nicely with the style I want to create on my front cover.
In the bottom right hand corner of my front cover, I will add my artist's name, Emilie Rose, so that the album is easily recognisable as a CD. The title 'Emilie Rose' will appear in a swirly, hand-written type font, which I want to make look like the artist herself has signed her autograph on the front of the album. This will make the album look more personal, and continue with the fun, eye-catching design, and may also provide a logo for my artist, for use in the rest of my texts.

Inside sleeve draft:

This is the mock-up to show my ideas for the inside cover of my CD/DVD digi-pak. As seen in most albums nowadays, there often features a note from the artist somewhere, saying thanks to people and displaying thoughts about the product in hand. I decided that I would make this the feature of the inside sleeve of my album, which I think will make for an interesting design feature.
I will start the note with 'Nothing Compares', which ties in with the title of the album and the song which I have used for my music video. I will follow the conventions of a typical thankyou note from an artist, by thanking various producers and managers for their help in the production of the product. To keep the inside sleeve in keeping with the design techniques I have used on my front cover, I will again use a hand-written style font to display the artist's note, to make it look like she has actually hand written it onto the sleeve, which again I think will personalise the album and make it unique. I will also use the original artwork here again, but this time I plan on subduing the colour of the piece, so it appears paler than on the front cover. I intend to do this so that it ties in with the front cover, but I will fade the colour out so it is not the dominant feature over the note from the artist.

Back cover draft:
This is the first draft of how I would like the back cover of my digipak to look.
As with the front cover and the inside sleeve, I will again use my artwork here, although I am not sure whether to use the bright or faded colour version. This is something that I will have to play around with and see what looks best. On the back cover is where I plan on finally featuring an image of my artist. I plan on Photoshopping the image in some way so it is interesting and unusual and will fit in with the personalised theme I am trying to create within this text. The photo will be a medium shot of my artist, although I am not sure which one to choose just yet, so this is another thing that I will have to play around with. In the top left-hand corner, I intend on displaying the artist's name like it appears on the front cover, and this will add coherency to my texts, as they will all be interlinked and will look as though they belong with each other. Down the right hand side of the back cover, I will include all of the track listings for the album. I plan on again using a swirly, hand-written type font here, however it will have to be less fussy then perhaps the one I will display the title with, as this could cause problems with reading the track listings, due to the fact that the text will be smaller.
In keeping with the conventions of a CD/DVD digipak, I will include a barcode in the bottom right hand corner, and album production details and artist information (such as websites and social networking profiles). These will appear smaller than the rest of the text on the cover, so as not to detract the attention from images and track listings that are the most important aspects of the cover.