Posted in audio, design, Design For Music, Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Photoshop, tagged Andy McAllister, Bass, breaks, composite, cover art, design for music, digital art, Ground Level Records, independent label, Joe C, kamikaze, photoshop, plane, Red on 20/10/2014| Leave a Comment »
Flipping back to the positive, a new release for Ground Level means another piece of design for music goes out to the ether today too. This time round its Joe C with the track ‘Kamikaze’ and a remix from label boss Andy McAllister, which you can listen to (and buy… *coughs*) here.
Posted in audio, design, Digital Illustration, Photoshop, typography, tagged composite image, cover art, design for music, digital art, image manipuation, Jo Lewis, photoshop, trees on 20/10/2014| Leave a Comment »
Recently, the picto-brain offered to create the artwork for the talented Jo Lewis’ next release. After a conversation over a beverage or two, armed with the titles, a little insight in to the stories behind the songs and a page of notes on appropriate colours, moods and themes, the ‘brain set to work whilst listening to the ep.
The concept artwork was delivered, and although Jo liked the layered image, she has opted for a more traditional cover with a striking self portrait.
You can’t win them all, so the saying goes, and it was an interesting creative project none the less.
Check out Jo’s music here and keep an eye on her facebook page for updates on the forthcoming ep.
Posted in design, Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Photoshop, typography, tagged album cover design, art, boobs, design for music, digital art, digital illustration, graphic design, layers, photoshop, sleeve design, Textures, typography on 25/07/2014| 1 Comment »
Happy Friday folks, here’s a little question for a sunny evening:
If the typographical element is removed from album sleeve design/single cover design, can the remainder be considered art?
Discuss!
Below are a few pieces of design for music from the picto-brain with the text removed or cropped away…
Posted in Digital Illustration, Photoshop, tagged Air balloon, anchor, birds, blue sky, composite, composite piece, desert, digital illustration, Egypt, fantasy worlds, floating, Hot air balloon, image manipulation, photoshop, pyramid on 15/04/2014| Leave a Comment »
A casual hour long composite piece, made as an example for a workshop creating fantasy worlds to learn Photoshop techniques. The picto-brain has been reading about Egypt recently and seems to have influenced this image a little… Nice.
Posted in design, Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Photoshop, tagged breaking the rules, design for music, digital manipulation, graffiti, graffiti artists, Guy Denning, photoshop, square on 04/04/2014| Leave a Comment »
I have a few friends who are graffiti artists and in recent conversations, I was informed of some of the ‘etiquette’ of the art form. Some of these rules included: a- to not spray near an established artists work to gain kudos from their piece, and b- to not cover over another piece of work if it still looks reasonably fresh, just to get a good location.
Well…
In defence of the picto-brain, it was done digitally – no actual art was harmed in the creation of a piece of design.
A brief required an image of a wall by a road… stock image sites had been trawled with no luck… Then I remembered a photo I took just off Brick Lane… with a little photoshop magic it was the perfect wall…
I really like this piece by Guy Denning and ‘painting’ it out felt quite wrong but, its a great wall and at least it wasn’t real. The finished piece of design is for a music download (hence the square crop) and can’t be revealed until the tracks go public – keep your ears and eyes open people.
Here’s the before and after – sorry Guy:
Posted in audio, design, Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Photoshop, tagged beats and breaks, city at night, composite, design for music, Drumattic Twins, Fisso & Spark, Ground Level Records, moon, photoshop, soundwave on 10/02/2014| Leave a Comment »
Another piece of work for Fisso & Spark. This weighty track needed an appropriate image to fit it, so the picto-brain wrangled pixels to make this composite:
Featuring remixes by Drumattic Twins and Sasha Khan, check it out on the Ground Level label blog [here]
Posted in Digital Illustration, info, Photoshop, typography, tagged 1623 Theatre Company, blending, composite, cracked, face, fusion, Let me not be mad, old man, photoshop, Shakespeare, stock photo, texture, times new roman, typeface, typography on 19/09/2013| Leave a Comment »
Posted in audio, design, Digital Illustration, info, Photoshop, typography, tagged Bass, breaks, Dallas, digital illustration, graffiti, Ground Level Records, grunge typography, Joe C, logo, logo design, Music, photoshop, record box, spray paint, stencil, street art, typography on 15/08/2013| Leave a Comment »
Joe C is a Dallas based breaks producer, dj and part of the Ground Level family, so when he said he needed a logo, the picto-brain offered to create it. He was after something that reflected his love of Dallas and street art, and was stoked with the result. Keep an eye out for it on future releases, but in the mean time if you fancy putting some beats and breaks in your ears, go [here]. Enjoy!
Posted in Digital Illustration, info, Photoshop, tagged A Calendar of Tales, beach, competition, competition winner, composite, digital illustration, illustration, image manipulation, Neil Gaiman, photoshop, rocks, sky, winner, Yellow on 24/05/2013| Leave a Comment »
A short while ago, the legend that is Neil Gaiman asked for submissions for his A Calendar of Tales project, and the website has now gone live! [here] I’m also really happy to announce that pictographik was a runner up and has work featured on the site which can be found under February! Check out the full twelve stories, and the great selection of images too. Awesome!
