Original Cover Design (Deluxe version)
- Sleeve 010/100: Back to Black – Deluxe Edition (2007)
- Studio Album by Amy Winehouse
- Label: Island Records
- Genre: Soul, Contemporary R&B, Neo-Soul
- Original Cover Desing by Alex Hutchinson
Tenth sleeve for my project #100albumsleeves🔥. That’s 10 weeks y’all !!!
I’ve been wanting to make an Amy Winehouse portrait since forever, and I finally did.
I first heard her in 2009 with her collaboration with Buena Vista Social Club for their album Rhythms del Mundo: Classics.
But it wasn’t until early 2011 that I became a total fan, just months before her passing 😢. I was really sad as I felt I was just getting to know her, and my dream of seeing her live was now not possible.
I don’t know why, but whenever I listen to her music I binge it. I’m a fan of EVERYTHING she created (except for the remixed versions of her songs). It was hard for me to pick an album, but I ended up picking Back to Black as I read she was proud of it and I wanted to honor that.
The album is influenced by the pop and soul music of 1960s girl groups, so I took inspiration from the visuals that were around during that decade, specifically Op Art, Pop Art, and Psychedelic Art.
I did all the lines by hand and resisted the urge of making corrections on the computer, as I wanted to challenge my perfectionism. I added the color digitally, and I used a halftone filter and misaligned them to give the effect of printing errors.
I don’t know if this could have been something of her liking, as her album covers were a little more classy, but I had a lot of fun with it.
Album Cover Redesign by franzmori. This is fan art, no copyright infringement intended.
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