The cover artwork for "Tonight" was designed by Mike Haggerty, who also designed the artwork for "Let's Dance" and would do the same for "Never Let Me Down". It features a blue-painted Bowie with his hair dyed dark brown, against a backdrop of oil-paint "daubs" and flowers. Pegg and Buckley compare it to the works of Gilbert & George. For the design, Bowie requested Haggarty to create "something heroic", pointing to a Vladimir Tretchikoff painting of a blue-skinned Chinese woman for reference. Although "Consequence of Sound" considers the artwork one of Bowie's "most genuinely beautiful" covers, Buckley notes that for the first time ever, one of Bowie's cover artworks wasn't innovative, calling it "satirically run-of-the-mill". Paul Du Noyer later said: "If you look at the album covers and the way he's dressed, it looks like a man who has let himself be designed by others rather than reinventing himself, which is what he has proverbially always done."