To practice for my final piece of artwork, I decided to create a mock-up of a piece of punk-style album artwork. The high-contrast, monochromatic image is typical of a punk album cover; usually, they consist of a threatening-looking shot (sometimes a medium or close-up, and often at a canted low angle) of the artist. It is deliberately "low-fi" and under-produced to give the "raw" aesthetic that punk artists usually seek; the subject of the shot has unkempt hair and a bruise on his lower lip, denoting that he's been in some sort of brawl (and the canted angle almost gives the impression that the character is drunk).
The logo is bright fluorescent pink to give a sense of harsh contrast to the rest of the image, but also as an allusion to the Sex Pistols (as is the mismatched, newspaper cutting-style lettering). I added a neon glow to make it reminiscent of the glowing signs outside of seedy urban strip clubs, which gives the piece a darker, more suggestive undertone.
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