Cover art for a song about answering a call, one step at a time.

"Paths" is a gospel single about walking in God's direction and answering His call. TeenStreet Worship wanted cover art built around that idea — something that would hold up as a tiny streaming thumbnail and still feel considered blown up to vinyl size.

Client TeenStreet Worship
Type Album Art
Services Graphic Design
Paths album art on a vinyl record mockup Paths album cover art, clean square Paths album art shown on a phone lock screen music player

A visual for a song about following, not arriving.

"Paths" is about the walk itself — staying in step with where God is leading, not a single moment of arrival. TeenStreet Worship wanted cover art that carried that same idea: a sense of direction and movement, rather than a static portrait or a generic worship-album look. It also had to work at two extremes — a few hundred pixels on a phone lock screen, and full size on a vinyl sleeve or streaming banner.

An illustration built to work at any size.

  • A fully illustrated cover — layered mountain silhouettes fading from deep purple into warm cream, with a single winding path of light cutting through the center, standing in for a walk toward something greater rather than a fixed destination.
  • Custom hand-styled lettering for the title, rather than a stock typeface.
  • A grain and texture pass across the whole piece so it reads warm and tactile rather than flat digital vector art.
  • Delivered for both ends of the use case — thumbnail-safe for streaming platforms, and a larger presentation format for vinyl-style mockups and lock-screen placements.
Detail crop of the Paths album art mountain illustration

One line, doing most of the emotional work.

The trail of light winding through the mountains carries the whole idea — a path that keeps going, disappearing over the next ridge rather than ending in frame. Getting that one shape right mattered more than any other single element in the piece.

Paths album art shown on a phone lock screen music player

Most listeners meet the art as a thumbnail first.

Before anyone sees this at full size, they see it as a tiny square on a lock screen or a streaming queue — so legibility at that scale came before anything else.

Cover art that carries the song's sense of direction, at every size it's seen.

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