Album Cover Art - ✎ ∙ Art Crafting

I've had moments in life (at work) that have inspired me to make art. Sometimes, it is inspired by funny in-jokes, or other times by frustration. The medium I have used to channel that emotion is mock mix CD album covers that I make in GIMP. I've gone on to make full mix CD's with full song lists that are usually inspired by whatever crazy situations we are dealing with.

Has anyone else done anything like that? Have you ever made CD album art or perhaps art for your own mix CDs or mic tapes? Or have you ever made parody art or channeled your frustrations into art? I find it is very therapeutic and helps me laugh.

I started working with some new people and I thought about if I ever showed them my art, and what they would think. They are very self-aware of their images, and heavily invested in almost being influencers and marketing themselves. I have a feeling that if I showed them, they wouldn't take it at face value and laugh. I feel like they would immediately appropriate my idea and make something similar to market themselves positively through that medium, and it would come off as cliche, or trying too hard, or cheesy and inauthentic. That got me thinking about culture and how art and ideas are born. My art was a product of a specific type of work culture, and it was funny and enjoyable because of that work culture. It wasn't ever about positive self-marketing, it is about making fun of people (including the negative aspects of ourselves). They weren't all negative, but they weren't all positive either.