Recently I’ve been trying to combine the digital skills I developed throughout last year and this summer with the more traditional hand drawn elements of how my work has been in the past. While I really enjoy working digitally, I’m conscious that I don’t want everything in my practice to be based on a screen, I still find doodling weird creatures and symbols a good way to get ideas out, and I don’t want to lose that in my work going forward.
With that in mind, I tried to combine the two forms of working in this entry for the soyoung magazine illustration competition. Instead of adapting a specific song as I usually would, I tried instead to get a feel for the band’s music as a whole, how it plays and what imagery it evokes. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard make me think of a sort of neon medieval future, similar to the sort of aesthetic seen in shows like He Man and Flash Gordon. I really love the over the top cartoonish nature of this aesthetic but combined with very spooky and atmospheric environments. The juxtaposition is what really sells this for me, so I wanted to capture both the zany and the spooky in this design.
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