The third piece of album art I’ve produced for Panic Elbow, and probably my favourite. This one was inspired by an alchemy sketch I did whilst listening to one of their songs – it had a darker feel than their other music, and obviously given the name, I thought it made a fitting accompaniment.
As usual, I encourage you to go and listen to their music on their MySpace page.
I came across Alchemy while watching David Leroy’s fantastic speedpainting video of a piece of Durian concept art. It’s a really nice way of generating some chaos to help inspire your drawing. The interface is mininmalistic and intuitive, and to tools create some really interesting shapes whilst also allowing a decent amount of control for once you want to start picking out specific forms. I’m not the greatest painter, but I think I managed some interesting results, starting with alchemy and then moving to GIMP to do the main part of the painting.
Soldier Sketch
Drawings based on random forms
Another piece of cover art I did for a friends band: Panic Elbow. Made with blender and the Gimp. The album isn’t out yet but I wanted to show it off. In the meantime you can check out their current music on the band’s myspace page, check them out!
I also did them an EP cover a while back.
For my fathers birthday this year I created a model of my family crest and had it printed in 3D by Shapeways. The final model arrived the other day and I’m pretty pleased with how it looks. Unfortunately I only have a point and shoot camera with fairly limited macro capabilities, so the photos don’t look that great, but I include a Luxrender render to show the details too.
