Album cover redesign

So after scouring google images for a cool cover to re-design, I found this cover to the album The Isolation Game by an Italian death metal group by the name of Disarmonia Mundi. I really liked the monster on the original design as well as the dark feeling ( halloween is right around the corner afterall). SO I began by re-drawing the monster and background sillhouette in illustrator by using the pen and blob brushes. After I had it all in vector, I imported the image into photoshop and worked on shadowing and fixing stuff. While working on it, I had the idea to mirror the image and have one hand hold the human heart while the other had the original butterfly. I think it goes with the overall dark theme as well as fitting in with the loner vibe that a title like The Isolation Game puts off.

                                                            The Original cover design

                                                                The vector drawing

re-creating in Illustrator

Original jpeg from the interwebs

My rendition,

Ok so our first creative assignment is here! Time to try out the new tablet and see if I can draw something that resembles the original picture I chose. For this one, I decided to re-draw a roswell alien that I found a jpeg of online. I did the rough sketching in Illustrator and then using Photoshop I built the layers a bit more to add depth and make the eye's have a glossy-ish look. After finishing this I realize that I really need to practice my drawing skills. Either way, here she is.........

Vector Drawn

Here is the basic vector image converted to a png. I drew the image with the pen and added some lines with the blob brush as well.

Here is the finished vector drawing with a city mirrored into his eyes. I brought my finished pdf into ps5, layered his eyes and used overlay on the city to create the reflection.