Album Art
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Welcome To Dirt City
This was a series of steps very similar to how a comic book
cover is drawn. First I did the roughs and pencils
on Blue Line Pro Illustration board, and inked the pencils
directly. Below the first picture is just the inks.
After scanning in the inks, I used Adobe Photoshop Elements and
an Intuos 2 graphics tablet to render the colors. Below is
the scene colored without Ralo and Lahta. Then I overlaid
a photo of us ready to fight the stranger hiding in the
foreground. You'll notice in the inks that the shadows Ralo
and Lahta cast are not there (and neither is the graffiti
on the wall) I added those later with the graphics
tablet. The rear of the album is just a lightened version
of the inks, and the CD is a lightened version of the color
step. I wanted to show the steps in the album art and
figured that was a good way to do it.
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Tale of the Red Jester
This was a knife painting (a palette knife, not a butcher
knife) on a 12x12 canvas board in red and black acrylic.
If you want to think it was a butcher knife, thereby making me
seem cooler, then I won't dispute you. If you look closely
you can see ambient light reflecting off of the thick
paint.
It is based on the title song. It took just a few hours to
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Panama City Women
This was a photo shoot we did the night Anthony recorded the
vocal track. The pictures were drop-shadowed and overlaid onto
silhouettes of Anthony made from other photos in the
shoot. All the layout was done in CorelDraw and Corel
PhotoPaint.
Below is the rear of the cover, and also the rear of Anthony.
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Nice Shit Song
This is actually a collage in CorelDraw of a variety of the
elements Anthony mentions in his tune. There's a trailer,
cigarettes, and even though he mentions a Kia, there's a PT
Cruiser. He drives a Turbo PT now, and considering how
much he paid for it, I felt it fit right in with the song.
That's my empty pocket in the foreground. When I thought
about the album cover, I wanted to communicate a part of the
song not mentioned in the title, which was the in return for all
this nice stuff, you had no money.
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