my friend victor asked me to make cover art for his new EP and it’s finally out so i can tell you guys about it! also LISTEN TO ITTTTTT if you’re at ALL into techno, he’s amazingggg (plus deception features glial cells)—it’s on spotify, bandcamp, and soundcloud. you can follow victor on insta @/victor_trumpets ^_^ now see me talk about my art
about the cover art: i took a nepheline syenite thin section and put it in XPL to bring out its interference colors, then overlayed the albite twinning from a labradorite slide (so my thanks to my school’s mineral collection!)—this was all done by tracing and editing pictures taken with a leica xpl microscope in procreate. i played around with color and orientation for a while with a lot of input from victor until we landed on this! i’m happy with it and the part i think is cool and the reason i was so excited to tell you guys about it is that i basically made a frankenstein mineral—this is something beautiful, made up of two real minerals, that couldn’t occur in nature. it’s taking the art of the rocks i’m looking at and creating my own!
side note: i knowwwww the text isn’t lined up perfectly and it’s driving me CRAZY i sent a second file with it fixed but it’s off by a single pixel so i don’t think he spotted the difference T_T i’m still really happy with how it turned out though!!