I am imagining it right now, and its lovely! but not always feasible. However I shall endeavor to do my best, and with that I would like to pass along some of the wisdom I have gained through over 10 years of experience as an illustrator. Over the years I have worked on many and various kinds of sci-fi fantasy books, character design, children's books, magazines, RPG's, CCG's, paperbacks, board games, and materials that aid psychologists. I have also many years of experience as a graphic designer and a Manager of Design, so there are a lot of things I might be able to have amusing discussions about. It's really hard getting started, and I wish I had known someone with experience early on for sure.
ok. Enough of that. I have a lot of work before me to do on an album cover, and I wanted to post what I have done for them so far, and document the progress.
the band: Order Of Nine
genre: Metal (fantasy)
album title: 7th Year of a Broken Mirror
The concept I was given: a bad stretch of luck and its nearly over, but its almost too much to take. You may change your luck if you change the man in the mirror. Undertones of suicide.
Not exactly an easy listening album, and the description could lead to so many possible images. I know that they have a dislike of cheesey, over simplified artwork so I thought I would be wise to elude to a deeper story. I don't have the luxury of speaking to them in person, thus I thought I would provide them with at least 5 different and well drawn images.
Here is what I came up with:
1. what says bad luck better than being pursued by an angry mob?
2. Eh, its metal right?
3. being seduced by the angel of death, that's metal.
4.a slightly more fantasy metal way to be seduced by the angel of death.
5. because not everyone thinks the angel of death would be hot...
The sketches went over well. They liked #4, they say the guy in it fits well with a previous cover they had done. But there are some modifications they wanted done to it. And that is what I am supposed to be doing right now instead of blogging.
stay tuned to see the next incarnation of sketch #4.
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