"LIMBfromLIMB"

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This is actually what I consider my first "real" graphic project. I knew little to none about Adobe Illustrator when I made it, and had barely figured out Photoshop after finishing my high school courses. The type was a result of me tearing at the font, trying to figure out how the pen tool and curves worked. I'm not sure I could replicate the program error if I tried, but it's stuck as a landmark of my design as something that proves I can make it in the graphic designer / album cover artist world. I'm still working on getting better with album covers.

When I was younger, I wanted to be in some sort of grindhouse or slowcore band, but I (still) really don't know how to make music. I wanted a sound that was equally gritty and rough as it was methodical and melodical; I wanted it to reflect the feeling I got when the T.V. would switch to a loud, dead channel in the dark of night - fear of being swallowed by it. The Youtube algorithm, scary in its ever-accurate recommendations, obliged to my concept and wish. Some bizarre "VHS Tape Collage" video appeared to me in the eerie morning - it was a repeating, disentegrating, deafeaning tape showing a part of some war movie (probably Rambo?) where a soldier getting bit by a snake under a tree. The cover features a modified screenshot of this video, like some face in pain leaping out of the darkness. Maybe some day I'll find that 300-view video again.

[2019]