Guerrilla Marketing Tactics: Album Art DIY Or Die Part 1 of 3

This post will feature quick ways to create art for your products/advertisements/headers while featuring creations for my own musical project. This will be coming from the perspective of a "splurgoholic." A person who's intention is to create a large body of work quickly. It's a saturated world. Have a nice read...

Yes, it's kinda like another post about me and my shit, but in this one, I am also trying to share the experiences I've collected as a fartist. Save yourself the hassle and learn from my mistakes here. Or, just be a real boss and pay me to make some more mistakes for you. #WillArtForSteem

DIY Quick Album Covers

For this lesson, we will need the app called Canva and also recommend a separate image editing app of your choice simply to change hues. The separate editing app simply needs to have a function that changes the hue. I am using the image editing app called PicsArt.

Have you heard of the app called Canva? Download it onto your phone and start messing around with it, asap. You can use it for many things other than album covers and instagram porn. Canva contains many formate temples the start you off with the correct size and probable file types. These pre-formatting temples are made for the various social media platforms that are missing out one Steem. They can save time even if you want to start from scratch.

🐢 Open Canva and click on the Instagram formatting option to start from scratch. It will take longer, it's something one should experience, but let's not in today's example. 🐢

🐇Instead, scroll down a little and click on one of the premade Instagram samples. Choose the one that you like. 🐇

It looks like this, for me, today...

Oh SNAP!

Is that Michael Jackson?!

In the spirit of splurging, I used the first example I saw. Coincidentally, it's a perfect sample for an album because it is a musical artist just like Tetrahedroseph is. I wonder if she is real.

If the sample were not free to use, Canva would have a crown icon to indicate that you need to pay for something. I'm paying now, as I type. It's a great app. Have a nice day and take a look at the top left corner of the image below.

The little box in the upper left corner of the image above shows a screen shot I took to give credit to the original design that my new design was inspired by. Is that plagiarism? I don't think so... it's free on the app. I'll give them some Steem. They will need to come and Steem me. Anyway, the other little squares in the images above and below this paragraph are my reinterpretations. I created a few reinterpretations using the original color scheme (green and orange with girl), but then I got complicated and used a separate app to adjust the hue of the entire image to blue.

Thumbnails for DTube: Like Water Lyric Video

Remember that video I created for DTube? No? It's cool. I forgot about it too. I made new stuff for it while messing with this other graphic art stuff. This first image below features a screen shot from my own video. You can see that I turned the image on it's side, changed the hue to blue and then added my screen shot.

Click here to see the video: https://d.tube/v/steemseph/QmbnzYkidhE2ZvtP6as8crNzx7osiRcma6ha4UArN3TVUV

This next image features the song's single cover for the final release of Unit 05. All the songs in this series will have a unique image for them. Bandcamp allows creators to use a different image for each song on an album or Bandcamp will use one image for every view of the album and it's contents. So, the image below is the one I created for the song "Like Water" and it is a sneak peak. It was not scheduled to appear until the release of the album "The Boiling Frog Unit 05." YES!!! It's overly complicated. Why do you think I'm writing it down. Art proof of brain/work/influence is all necessary in the this saturated overly contrived world.

It's true, the image above contains a true statement. Anyone can listen to my music 8 times for free.

More border madness? Seems more acceptable for this older material. Seems best to use it for rehash stuff. Yum, hash is the best. Oops that suddenly inspired an interruption... to make this...

That image above is a quicky! I created a new duplicate project and then altered it to create the piece you see above. I took that image myself while trying to imitate the original Canva sample that started all this. Meh, it's cool, but beware of the dark side of this technique. Don't over do it. Don't add more everytime. Change things and remove things, but don't start adding more every time you jump into an older project. Keep it simple. Cook it slow. Let it simmer. Take a shit instead.

"Guerrilla Marketing Tactics: Album Art DIY Or Die Part 2"

Part 2 will feature more info about copying projects within Canva to create consistent yet different imagery for your brand. Part 2 will also feature more of Tetrahedroseph's "splurgeoholic" style/guerrilla marketing using free Canva templates. They want you to steal it.

"Guerrilla Marketing Tactics: Album Art DIY Or Die Part 3"

Part 3 will feature the song I created for this album. One song? Two songs... maybe three songs. I already know the album title and cover will be NSFW. Everyone likes profanity, don't they? TikTok porn, right? It's all good, right?

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Do you know what a splurge is? Check out my previous post.

Thanks for reading and supporting. Have a prosperous new year.