looks nice thus far. :) I wanna see the firey one.

oh cool. a ninja ;)

it's called resizing...



This is the first public draft for a CD cover art for a band.

Oh my god man.. I mean I can see some rough areas in the draft ;), but it already looks AWESOME..

ahhh, so like an updated megaman style, then?

i dont like his stance too much...  it looks like he is a woman or really gay.  he's all like "hey, look at my ding-a-ling. plz, ty" 

which band, are they famous/going to be famous?

nice piece - looking forward to the final product.

The Protomen, not famous or big but touring and working hard, I suppose.
article here.

I've made CD art before but never in pixels so I'm helping them out.

Their genre : Other/Other/Other
How delightful.

Yeah, keep the pose. ;)

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You can't resize pixel art????

Yes, but only in units of 2. For print you can go anywhere.

@Myk, About the airport signs. Really boring actually, some resorts in Jamaica in iso, not in my usual style, more simple stuff like this CD art.
But BIG!!!

i love the new blue!

jeez thx.  lets have a bash fest on a my comment...  I thought it would get all messed up.  it gets messed up in photoshop when it gets resized so I figured it would get messed up on paper...

I demand photos of BIG jamaican airport pixelart signs, jal.

I hope your printer is good.

100% because pixel art is always sexier when it's pure bred.

The feedback from the band is:
"The wash on the image seems to imply that something is looming. I like the idea of that."

I will begin throwing the inside covers together while this matter resolves itself. I like 100% pixelly but this does seem like a Hybrid PA project. Hybrid will make the inside fires way easier to illustrate...back to the tablet ;)

I like the straight up version myself.  The purple seems out of place in the scene with all of the blues and grays.  Since you said that there is to be a version with the buildings on fire, maybe have the highlight in red or yellow to signify an explosion off-screen some place that the viewer can't see yet.

you lose some of the retro feel with the purple.

I personally think neon purple actually adds to the retro/80's feel.

I felt the purple/pink was extremely out of place, with no real explanation for it being there... its just there, and distracting.

I do however love the green windows and blue tones in the shadow

Band supplied the text and where it goes. I think this will not be PA but vectors so I think the gradient is a better fit.



@ Myk, light glow tanked ;)


Edited by jalonso - 20 April 2007 at 4:10am

Jal, do they have a website or myspace where i can listen their music..?  and i would change the text a bit more fitting to the bg, and the gradient on the right side less visible... also, reading the font can be quite a hard task... maybe make them just a bit easier to read..?

My bad. That is just FPO (for positioning only) text and logos. I will have nothing to do with laying that out. Its just shown here so that when y'all c+c you know what areas will be covered with NPA items. Also so that I don't sweat the pixels in these areas too much...deadlines 9.9. The graphic guy doing that will wait to see the inside art so that it all seems together.

@Varock, links are somewhere higher up on this thread.

So this is the very first step for the inside of the CD case. Just shifted hues and then tweaked manually a bit to keep some blue overcast. It will most likey not end up this way as every update these reds will change till you all say its coo. The yellow lines are kinda where I see the main explosion happening, coming from the lit windows on the front. The rest I imagine on fire or in states of destruction with lots of metal, rebar (sp.) and twisted metals...
...think last scene in Fight Club when Tyler is blowing up buildings from where he is.
Should I destroy every other building but the Megaman one?...hmmm

Great idea, pixel art for a cd cover, i was thinking this for my solo project a few weeks ago. Awesome design too, looking forward to seeing your final approach .