"Waiting For The Day" – Cover Art

Illustrated cover art and custom emblem-style title design developed for a collaborative single promoting civic engagement and voter participation.

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Working from client-provided ideas and reference imagery, I began the project with two thumbnail concepts exploring a belt buckle–inspired title emblem as the central visual motif. After refining the selected direction into a detailed digital sketch, I developed the final illustrated emblem in Adobe Illustrator—integrating the song title and surrounding visual elements within the oval buckle form to function as a standalone promotional asset.

Once the color palette was approved, I incorporated the finalized emblem into a complete cover art composition in Adobe Photoshop. During this phase, I enhanced the vector artwork with dimensional detailing—adding shading, metallic highlights, and a subtle orange edge glow to emphasize the reflective quality of the metal. Texture overlays were applied to differentiate surface treatments, giving the inset areas a lightly hammered finish while maintaining a sleeker texture on the raised elements of the buckle.

The final artwork combined the rendered title emblem with the client’s existing artist logo, supporting artist credits, a background image provided by the client, and campaign-oriented text encouraging voter participation.

Upon completion, I delivered both the standalone emblem and the fully composed cover art, allowing the client to utilize the assets across multiple promotional contexts tied to the song’s release and live performance.