Dick Limerick Academy Album Cover

This was a CD cover design i did for local Liverpool Rap act 'The Dick Limerick Academy', and their album "Merseycide.It started life as a parody of the cover for the Sony Play Station game "Grand Theft Auto". Which was one of my initial ideas for the acts imagery and album feel.I vectored over each D.L.A members face and turned them into a similar looking character to the game.Then added these faces over the characters on the cover.It was actually G.T.A 3's front cover i was using to be precise.

Communicating with Ricky Wiley of The D.L.A we decided not to hit on the whole parody side of things and get something more original and 'of its own' that would stand out as being The D.L.As original theme.However we did decide to keep the comic book character style.As this was something Ricky was into.

I eventually finished all 5 members and sent them to Ricky to mess around with and do as he pleased with them.It was him that added the background, fonting, positioning and size order of the characters.

Here is the design :