Tuesday 26 January 2010

Self Portrait

I've brought up design forums before, and my status as a bit of a post whore, but they have a monthly avatar theme. January was a self portrait. Despite having done a portrait in the past, I decided to go back to the same photo set and do another.

Last time did it using the pen tool in Illy and then just block coloured the details, having got a tablet for my birthday and not used it anything like enough I decided to do this by hand. Pencil tool in Illy for the outline and then the Shop for colour. Seriously I didn't use the fill tool once!

Some of the colours aren't perfect, but I tried to sample the colours from the photo rather than making them up.

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OK, yes I ignored my tattoos.

This one goes out to Hulk Hogan!
Michael

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Something involving a Hat!

So this is literally a nothing piece, well not nothing, but I certainly had no idea what the hell I was getting at when I started! I started with a picture of a hat and went from there...

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Who knows? Playing with a image, brushes, texture....

Peace out.
Michael

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Sunday 24 January 2010

Something old...

This however is a revisiting, which might become a theme here, of something I started, honestly I have no memory why! But I saw it and thought I'd get it finished.

So here we go...

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It was obviously supposed to be a banner for something, if I remember, I'll tell you.

Time to go.
Michael

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Wednesday 20 January 2010

The job that keeps on going...

Well it does, this is its second post and there is still more to come!

They Walk Among Us again, this time its the cover art for the CD and the on body, and the craziest part about this is, the cover isn't actually for finished! There is more to come and that will require photos!

The point, cover art!!!

Front:

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Back:

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On body:

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It is a little odd that I have done 2 card sleeves out of 3 (I don't know, I haven't spoken to anyone about the Captain Accident physical sleeve yet!) in a row. What will the world bring me next....

Bed time!
Michael

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A punk rock chick...

A few years back I played a show with a very friendly gent from New York called Mike Borgia, super nice guy, super talented as well.

He has recently produced a record for a very talented young lady called Juliet Echo, and for some unknown reason he decided I was the man to get the artwork designed for her record, oh wait, he's an old friend, that's why. Taking note people, you can do good work for your friends!

So anyway back to the album design...

The album title is 'Saturated Youth', I was sent a concept sketch, which will for ever be kept for me to chuckle at (love you guys for doing it though), which gave me my initial direction. Me being me, I did it, looked at it and decided I wasn't fused with what I had done, so decided to do what I thought was right as well.

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You have no idea how many photos this cover went through to finally get the right feel for this!

I am glad to say that all the work I did on the discarded front cover didn't go to waste in the end! It ended up being the back!

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This went through a few stages aswell, one will be remembered as the photo overload! But I must confess to the fact that I was steered towards this be a client who loved it. Don't get me wrong I don't hate it here, but the original just wasn't front cover material.

Oh yeah there is an on body too!

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Not a million miles away from the anything else, but I think it will be a nice thing in its physical form.

Time to finish this post.
Michael

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Tuesday 19 January 2010

Deadlines are wonderful for inspiration!

It's Wednesday today, and its also the first time I have had a chance to update in ages!

On Thursday just past I had an email from a friend, followed by a phone call from another friend, then emails...

The long and the short of it was, "Record label want the digital cover ASAP!" "How ASAP?" "Tomorrow!" and muggins here took up the challenge, with a little help from a friend.

Captain Accident AKA Adam Parsons, has an amazing reggae record just around the corner, the single is called "Fire! Fire! Fire!" and is a love song about his wife. His brother in law, also an amazing designer/illustrator (his myspace is coming and it is off the charts!) agreed to collaborate to get this badboy done ASAP.

He provided me with this:

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and a bit of info that was on his mind. I think between the two of us we have upped the standard of both of our work. His drawing was amazing, so I just had to piece it together and design a logo and some text placement. As you can see...

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Here is a larger version of the logo:

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Fingers crossed it will look like this when it goes to the physical product:

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And it would be totally inappropriate for a band to not have a release show, but this is a special show on a special night. I'm looking forward to Valentines Day now!

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This is one of those things that I feel I will be proud of for a very long time.

I'm happy I'm back!
Michael

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