I am very sorry for being so late with this post but wordpress for unknown to me reasons didn’t allow me to upload any media >< I promise I will try to clean up my act in posting on schedule department : )
Lately I listened a lot to Shinedown and I became strongly inspired by one of their songs called “Beyond the sun”. I started to think how would I see cover for this song’s single and decided to make it next of my personal projects. After some time with blend tool and different object modes I created the cover you can see downstairs. I wanted to make it very dark – as you can see it is mostly black. It somehow made sense that beyond the sun everything would be dark and barely lit. I wanted text to be delicate and not dominant at all, but become part of illustration I created for cover. At first I was working with pinks but over time I decided to give it more of orange-y tone.
When I started to create light effects I got a bit overboard with them but after some time I decided that less is more and simplified illustration. That definitely made it look much more interesting. After adding some more details I decided to just stop to not overdo it again. The final step was adding single title and band name to finish fake album cover look.
So, this was definitely a lots of fun to create, I hope I will get such nice inspiration from my favourite music more often 🙂 Did you ever let your inspiration lead you this way? I never was doing things like that (till now) and I must admit I really did enjoy that project 🙂
madness designed. 