Draft Advert Design

This is my attempt at creating a Album Advert for my Digipak part of the course. I feel that it works well, as it suits the genre that we are working in, therefore will appeal to our target audience.
After looking and analysing other artist's album design, I made mine to perhaps contain some of the work that they possess, this is why I believe it is effective.
With the main artist being surrounded by musical books, it conveys her passion for producing and creating her own lyrics. It also shows her determination to succeed.
I added effects to the original image, giving it a different look, but as I am yet to develop my skills on Photoshop, I was not able to make any challenging adaptions to the image.
When it came to selecting an image that could perhaps be used for the draft Advert design, I had to choose carefully, and judge it on the posture, costume, font and overall image that the artist presents. Her costume fits into the genre of Soul, and also matches the artist's name.