The Departed

My good friend Adam B Metal has been cranking away on his solo project 'The Departed' for a while now and pretty much every step of the way I have been making art for it.

Recently we made a shirt together for his first couple of gigs and I was pretty happy with the way it came out.

Here's a few pics of the process.

This was a photo of Adam's dog. I redrew it in Illustrator and added a heart in his mouth. 

More detail, highlights.

First idea for layout. Added some blood too. Text was hand done with sloppy paint and a syringe. The design was too open, so it got the arse.

Adam was keen on the design being framed, so I drew in some antique looking floral action. Text got vectored.

Redrew and detailed the frame.

This is the final, added some grey to give it a bit more depth, and knocked it back to 3 colours for print.

Heres a photo of it all printed (on my dog, for no reason)! Done by the excellent AND printing of Melbourne.

The Departed will be featured in the upcoming action mmo APB and has free shit over on Bandcamp. Go get it. It's really good. 

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