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This is the cover design for the first studio album of Ibiza island’s alternative pop rock band Sequoia Tree www.facebook.com/Sequoia.Ibiza… . The artwork was created about a year ago, although I wasn’t able to publish it until the album’s release, which was delayed for different reasons. Finally, the record will be released in October 2013.
The eleven tracks included in the album were composed during the last five years, since the band’s formation. Moving between pop, rock and indie, the main themes in the songs are heartbreak, school failure and social exclusion.
Please visit the band’s facebook fanpage www.facebook.com/pages/Sequoia… for more information and updates. You can also listen to some of the songs here: www.facebook.com/pages/Sequoia…

This illustrations would be a typical example of mixed-media work. Many different techniques, both traditional and digital, were used in this project, the final result of which being assembled digitally in photoshop.

The main painting of the wolf, the bushes and the sky was painted using acrylic paints on 370g watercolor paper. Later on, it was scanned and adjusted digitally, adding several digital painting layers, using different blend modes and effects.
The buildings were vector-drawn in adobe illustrator, then adjusted, tweaked, painted over and added to the final composition in photoshop.
The dripping and spatter effects were also created traditionally using watercolor and acrylic paints on paper, then scanned, adjusted and added digitally to the final illustration.
Finally, the luminous dragonfly was 100% digitaly painted in photoshop.

Please check out the post in my blog randomsprouts.wordpress.com/20… if you want to see also the full design with titles, the back cover, the original traditional acrylic painting, and some more process details!

Description
This is the cover design for the first studio album of Ibiza island’s alternative pop rock band Sequoia Tree www.facebook.com/Sequoia.Ibiza… . The artwork was created about a year ago, although I wasn’t able to publish it until the album’s release, which was delayed for different reasons. Finally, the record will be released in October 2013.
The eleven tracks included in the album were composed during the last five years, since the band’s formation. Moving between pop, rock and indie, the main themes in the songs are heartbreak, school failure and social exclusion.
Please visit the band’s facebook fanpage www.facebook.com/pages/Sequoia… for more information and updates. You can also listen to some of the songs here: www.facebook.com/pages/Sequoia…

This illustrations would be a typical example of mixed-media work. Many different techniques, both traditional and digital, were used in this project, the final result of which being assembled digitally in photoshop.

The main painting of the wolf, the bushes and the sky was painted using acrylic paints on 370g watercolor paper. Later on, it was scanned and adjusted digitally, adding several digital painting layers, using different blend modes and effects.
The buildings were vector-drawn in adobe illustrator, then adjusted, tweaked, painted over and added to the final composition in photoshop.
The dripping and spatter effects were also created traditionally using watercolor and acrylic paints on paper, then scanned, adjusted and added digitally to the final illustration.
Finally, the luminous dragonfly was 100% digitaly painted in photoshop.

Please check out the post in my blog randomsprouts.wordpress.com/20… if you want to see also the full design with titles, the back cover, the original traditional acrylic painting, and some more process details!