Adventure Thing #87 - Album Artwork Thumbnails (Patreon)

Dia duit, Eachtraí!

Following up on last week, I'm sharing some of the thumbnails from Mr. Flama as he has taken some of our concepts and direction and started putting rough ideas to paper.

He shared these with us as experiments to get feedback, and then refined them into 3 'sketches', one of which we chose to be the final concept and which he's currently working on creating in full glory.

It's worth noting that I'm pretty firmly back into the 'Canon Eyes' zone for the title, after trying on 'Stereotactic Radiosurgery' for a while, it just felt a bit too arch. The notes we gave him were the title, some of the rough mixes, that the album is generally about growing up / legacy / change, and that we loved the work of his that I shared in the last Adventure Thing post and were picturing something in that vein.

Here's the full transcript of Mr. Flama's response as well to give some context to the ideas he's playing with here:

"I’m working on a concept of letting your inner child free both on the idea of creative freedom and with the concept of legacy as you pass it on into your children, with the idea of growing and transformation. Also I’m playing with the symbolism of the Koi fish as a Koi fish that surpasses challenges in their lifetime transform into Dragons.

You’ll see also the theme of eyes applied in every sketch, in some I’m imagining as if it was a kind of civil war battlefield with cannons in each side of the field ready to shot and eyeballs as cannonballs, in others I’m thinking of including the eyes as floating orbs and also deconstructing the eye in others."

Our overall feedback was that we love the concepts, the deconstruction, the koi, and a lot of the circular / cyclical imagery.  We were less into the literal eyeballs-as-cannonballs take, but still really like the deconstructed cannon / eyeball imagery.

Next week I'll share the sketches! But then you'll have to wait a while since we've still got a few weeks before the actual artwork will be done. 

Still, likely exciting news to share as we're going in for our final mix tweaks day this Thursday!