ALBUM ARTWORK
A series of album art I created for experimental metal artist Quantity of Dimension One [QODO] using a combination of stock images, created assets and highly technical compositing, as well as many years of experience.
No AI was used in the making of these artworks.
UNCANCEL THE FUTURE
For this release I selected a number of abstract, futuristic / tech / Sci-Fi images and advance compositing techniques. The artwork is meant to evoke a feeling of forward moving momentum toward the future.
The final composite above shows how I often work on pieces in wide format before narrowing in on the focus of the piece and adding type / logos, etc.
FROM A DISTANCE
The concept for this piece is to give a feeling of space or the cosmos, traveling great distances at incredible speed, possibly in a craft or by some other method. I used two stock images that I felt worked very well when composited, and implemented a layout I devised when the QODO logo lockup is used in the artwork.
EVIL WE DO
Being a fan of horror movies, both the musical artist and I felt this piece should be dark and ominous. After a few rounds of comps, I felt this piece was ideal, showing a bare, modernly minimal cell / holding area in a dystopian looking bunker complex. The blood indicates something unpleasant must have occurred.
DOOM OF WAKING
I used aluminum foil, shaped by hand for the base layers, then composited a stock image of a black hole and accretion disk.
The finished artwork combines the personal and cosmic, a human iris and a black hole.
PULL ME OUT
Inspired by the Brandon Cronenberg movie Possessor, about "an assassin who takes control of other people's bodies to carry out her hits. Through an implant installed in the unwitting host's brain, the assassins' consciousness is inserted into their minds. She returns to her own body by forcing the host to commit suicide at the end of the job".
Leaning heavily into psychological horror, the artwork is meant to evoke a similar sense of uncontrolled, chaotic dread in the music piece and that is found in the movie.
KUSANAGI 2501
A tribute to the anime Ghost in the Shell, I used stock city images (one of them Hong Kong, an inspiration for the setting for the movie) to make a futuristic, cyberpunk looking city. I then created a variation of the triangle motif used in the Ghost in the Shell one sheet to reference the movie, tying it all together.
