Castles EP by sublunis
Album art by KLA.GustFlo
Another collaboration with the amazing ambient/synth/piano/soundtrack/songs-for-deep-thinkies artist sublunis! The new EP takes the music in a different direction than the previous two albums, while still maintaining a signature style that makes the artist so recognizable. I attempted to work that in with the art - another alcohol ink work like for Sublunar, but a different subject and composition, plus a font style not typically associated with ambient electronic music.
The EP is out now - may it deliver you inspiration.
Castles EP process images
May / June 2023
This project, I'll admit, had a slight bump in the road. I'd intended to make a full analog art piece for the album cover, but schedule constraints meant I would not have finished the art in time for the album release! So, I pivoted. While I love the feel of a fully analog work, I am very fast at hybrid renderings (thank you years of architecture projects). I photographed the work at 60% completion, bringing it to a full-fledged art ready for an album cover. That freed up the remaining time to focus on the graphic design, something that would have been rushed otherwise.
In the end, I think I'm happier with this iteration for a sublunis album. My artwork for his last album was a digitally altered version of a piece I'd previously completed:
This harkens back to my process for the album art of Sublunar, the first full-length album by sublunis, and the first album art I've worked on. sublunis had a work I'd previously done in mind for Sublunar, but wanted it altered into a new work.















