Gilgongo is back. They've finished up their second album "Dreams & Miracles" and once again I've been lucky enough to work on their cover. I had the idea of a parade for a while and pushed them towards this as a wraparound cover design. Their music is quite bouncy and their odd and abusrdist lyrics stay whimsical even when their talking about their darker sides. I wanted the parade to start off in the distance as something malevolent and sort of unintentionally build up into something over-the-top AWESOME!
Kudos to Amy and
Sam for playing the carnival barker/emcees of the parade and Ryan for sitting with me and hand picking characters from their lyrics to join in.
The drawing was pieced together in photoshop from individual sketches and then transferred onto artists vellum. The orignal is roughly three feet long so the tracing paper transfer was a bit of a pain. But once everything was in it's right place, I inked it pretty quickly - over about 3 days.
The rest was pretty basic solid photoshop color with minimal layers. I never got to work in this way before and it's simplicity was made it so much fun.
Here's what the cover is going to look like...
Some details...
