Heyyyy. So here is the artwork for Adams CD. It will look much sexier on the actual CD, and I have to say, the songs are also pretty sexy. I have been listening to them repeatedly.
This is the cover. The CD is a lot about not being in control, due to inside forces (physical, emotional, mental) and outside forces.
This is the back of the CD. There is track listings here, above the sheep.
This is what you see behind the CD when you take it out.
This is on the CD.
This is some artwork for the inside, where the lyrics are. This one was Adams idea, and its one of my favorites. I mean, I just made these characters as symbols for the cover, then used the wolf as a metaphor in another, and usually they are fighting or doing something bad, and here they are in a band together. It reminds me of a Scooby Doo episode, where the bad guys are chasing Shaggy and Scooby, but then all of a sudden music comes on, and they are running through a hallway with lots of doors, and dancing and singing together. Awesome.
BAD. ASS.
ReplyDeleteI really like these. A lot. The simplified color palette and the restriction of the forms to silhouettes is really gonna make the text pop. I haven't even seen the final product but the design choices you made here are going to complement the writing really well--the bright colors and high contrast are going to give the art a very strong presence, but it won't make the overall composition so busy that we get distracted from what we're supposed to be reading.
Also, they're just executed really well. That drum set looks like it was a pain in the ass with the negative space between the legs and the cymbals and the little ridges in the drums themselves. Plus the veins in the lungs and all the internal organs.
I'm curious about the wolf motif, particularly in conjunction with the human figures. The sheep/wolf juxtaposition has quite a bit of artistic and literary precedent to draw upon but I'm less certain about the human/wolf pairing.
dakota i'm so proud of your work! i love this designy shit!
ReplyDeleteand wow rachael. just. wow. i feel like i can't say anything after that.
i feel like i owe you a better comment
ReplyDeletetechnically dakota these are so great and professional looking and well executed. they're so good that at first i wondered if they're my new favorite things you've made. i don't think they're my favorite things you've made because somehow it seems less you (not in a sell out kind of way, just different from your usual) I think the designy shapes and flat colors and professionalism makes it somehow seem less personal. i feel less you of emanating from these, as if the solid shapes are covering it or acting as a barrier between us. actually just now i am realizing that while i really really like designy things i don't feel a strong connection with the artist through the art. design always seems colder somehow. this doesn't mean i dislike design, it just doesn't seem like an artist's work. whereas when i see most of your other art i can feel you through it. (wow try to take that in the most not perverted way possible) really i mean it, i can feel your person when i look at other things such as the narcissus or the boys and fish watercolor etc.
am i making sense?
I also realize that this might be coming off as negative but i want to impress again how impressed (haha) i was by these and really wowed by your multitalentedness. it really shows of your versatility, that you can be just as good in this style as in your usual style.
ok. try not to let this inflate your ego too much.