Secret 7" // Concept development

I took my design concepts to a small organised student led crit this morning and received the most positive feedback towards the concept below, it was initially my favoured design but I was worried that the concept would not get portraited.

It was suggested that it would look the best if it was mostly photography based but I may try a few different production options to see what represents the music better.

After live tracing the crystal glass, the vector created is visually really nice, i was worried that I would loose the shape of the crystal but the indents in the glass form shadows which highlight the shape and reinforce the visual message. 

My aim is to keep the colours I use as one solid tone of each, so in reality the design should have a maximum of 3 colours.

The concept revolves around simplicity and space, so keeping a small amount of non intrusive colour to give across the feeling of loneliness

I want to use my own photography for the final piece but for now, I have found this image of a man who looks like he's falling,

The digitized version of this piece was just experimenting with layout and scale of each individual element, obviously this being Secret 7" then the title of the artist and the single will not be included on the actual cover

These are the 3 options I have produced in relation to the colour options, the darker option with the navy, is there to reinforce the darkness and loneliness of my concept, but it comes across a bit intrusive, against the white/ grey of the crystal.

The 2 options below create a much clearer and impressive layout which really highlight the white clear space around the visual elements. but the option of having a border of blank background.

I took this to get the opinion of some studio peers, and it was suggested that I keep the background blank, as this really gives the impression that this glass is sat in endless space, and the figure is completely helpless while falling through space.