GOTA: Everlasting 2.0 Album Art

I decided recently that I really hated the artwork I made for my "Everlasting" album and my roommate JP who has worked with me on my music before inspired me with artwork from one of his own EPs to just go ahead and whip up something completely new for it. Here I'll show you how I went from a new canvas to the finished product.

1. I started out with just a basic sketch of a coyote drawn in Sai, it looks like a wolf but either way it works.

2. I added an image of the Andromeda Galaxy just to give it a spacey feel... or something like that. There's actually 2 layers, one is desaturated, the second is colorized teal with a reveal all layer mask and a gradient applied to it.

3. & 4. LOTS of layering with grunge textures and stock images of old school maps.

5. Splatter Brushes

6. Cloud Brushes

7. Stock images thrown in of engine diagrams, sprockets and a compass rose, inverted then set to screen in the blend mode.

8. The final product. The font I used for Everlasting is called Jersey Stories!, you can get it from Dafont.com and the GOTA logo (hard to notice I know, I wanted it like that) is just the orignal logo designed with the Aristotle Punk font.

And there you have it, album art.

PAINTY EDGE WIP

I've finally gotten around to trying my hand at a painterly style again, this time with better results than the first time I tried. This little doodle was mostly Sai and PS CS4 but I just got Art Rage so once I start getting commissions for them I'll maybe give Art Rage a shot. I just wanted to post a WIP of some sort since it's been a while. I completely forgot I did this in only 3 layers, though I deleted the initial sketch layer because I'm so cool like that. :V

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COLOR/PAINTING/IDK WHAT TO CALL THIS

FINAL/BACKGROUND

Sooooo there you have it, it looks pretty simple with only 3 layers but I think I spent hmmmm, probably 4 hours on this or something. Getting digital painting down is definitely not easy but the outcome is worth the work.

Watercolor Brushes Revived!

Finally got a new WORKING link up (thanks to Moreck for hooking me up with my own resources) of my watercolor Photoshop brushes. Packs I through IV condensed into a masterpack. Enjoy!

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Uhhhhh, changing the blog to E|D but I think I'm going to keep the resources as DIDY. IDK.

2009 is so last year, time for a new blog.

Considering I'm making Edge|Destroys my little name brand thing or whatever you'd call it, I figured it was time to give the blogspot a tiny revamp. New banner, new URL, same art.

If for WHATEVER REASON you have this bookmarked I suggest you change the bookmark to the new url, obviously edgedestroys.blogspot.com.

Rest in peace DIDY, you were cool, ...actually you still are. Hmmmmm. Nah, I'll stick with E|D.

Skin Deep, Fur Deep, BIG DIFF.

Getting close to having my minimum of 15 shirts designed before throwing my ad up on FA. I'm a bit tapped on ideas but today was a good day! I managed to finally get my "wolf in sheep's fursuit" idea done in as little cliche/corny a manner possible. I finally got a shirt designed for my music project, Gears Of The Apparatus too, so over all I'm happy.

In other news, I'll be a very happy person if I never hear Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" again for the rest of my life.

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I don't know if its from Mitchell Davis or what but lately I've had a fixation on designs based on 600 series polaroid photos. There's a new shirt design up with them and I'm doing polaroid based badges too. Speaking of shirts I'm going to finally be asking Dragoneer about getting on of my E|D banners up. I've got one design left in my head at least for now before my bank gets my money to my paypal and I note him about the banner. Unfortunately I'm falling short of the 15-20 designs I wanted to have up before the banner went up but I'll be sure to keep designing so long as art block doesn't get in my way.

SHAZAM

Man oh man I'm getting work done on something for once. Inside joke between my roommates and I (unrelated to the band) turned out to be one of the best ideas I've had in a while. It's not narcissism if I want to buy my own stuff is it?

Also, got a mini banner done too, just in case the WHOPPING 16 frames of the first one ends up being too many for FA to handle.

Check it out here.

Nine shirts made so far, we'll see what else I can pump out of my head. I've got a few ideas though I'm not sure I know how to properly make them happen yet. Hoping to have at least 15-20 shirts designed before I get my banners up.

In the event you haven't seen my redbubble account (no idea how you'd manage that, I'm tweeting about it like madness) check that out here.