Brief 1 - Design is About Doing: Interim Crit

For the interim crit I asked:
1. How I should develop the images? 
2. With the painting how much hand should show and the sizing of the rose? Also should I keep the frame or go all white?
3. Which thumbnail should I develop further?

"I think the flower paintings work best, perhas make the petals brown, I feel this will work better with the image of the band and the theme of the song"

This is definietly something I will look into editing! It would fit in a lot better with the songs meanings and what the piece of art is trying to communicate.

"Flower and hand; have the hand looking more desperate as though he wants to revive the flower. Stretch 1/2 fingers out to be reaching out for it. Play with the angle of the hand. I like the frame: shows he feels confused and stuck."

I think this is another good piece of advice, the hand does look like it has given up caring, perhaps by adjusting the angle and position of the hand it will get rid of this and show the plea. The frame does contain the image more giving the idea of him being stuck.

"Could look at using block colour in the background possibly a slightly darker grey than the hand to reinforce the message of your design"

This seems like another sound piece of advice which I will hopefully look into.

"Not the male and female one, that suggests bringing male and female together, not being separated. The paintings don't give you much room for development, but I reckon you're going to use that one anyway. To be honest so would I, but I dont see how "developing" it will change it for the better, as I can only see it becoming less elegant."

This feels slightly like an ad hominem attack, attacking the painting style rather than what its trying to show.

"paintings - middle one with border is best (more hand showing) also think the record showing through the transparent man is good concept and works well having used greys- monotone, keep with little use of colour. Think I prefer the painted version."

"Do you need to? Do develop if an idea is pretty much there. Doing it for the sake of it will ruin the design. Middle image is perfect balance of hand and rose, layout is nice to. Side note - I love the cut out idea."

"I really like the rose one, think you should stick to hand being further down the page (middle one with boarder)"

I found the feedback I received useful, however I regret writing questions because people have just answered the questions and not looked at giving more general feedback. I will look at making improvements from things that have been suggested as well as developing new ideas.