POPMONSTER!

A few months ago my friend, musician and filmmaker Greg Pope, approached me about doing the cover art for his upcoming solo album titled "PopMonster". Greg and I have a lot of similar interests, specifically sci fi and classic monster movies (he easily has the largest collection of Kaiju on vhs and dvd in this part of the country) and he thought I might be good at doing a giant robot monster inspired cover for his new rock n'roll album. (Don't know how he got that idea...)

Here's a few pics of Greg in action sporting a tasty SRM shirt;


Greg's just finished the final master of the album and is sending off the tracks and art today. I'll do a follow up post with the links to where you can purchase the album or go see one of his shows. (Since he'll be doing shows promoting the album, I may try and do a poster for one of his gigs too) Until then, he's got a link up with a couple of sample tracks from the new album here.

Greg's posting some news over here at his non-solo "group" site; edumund's crown

AND you can download a couple of free tracks from his previous album there too... this one's my fave: Keith Richards

Here's what the front and back for the PM album look like together, as well as the actual disc too.




For those interested, you can check out some of the process steps toward the final art below.

Some initial sketches:



And a few of the color concepts;

Go Go, BOWL-ZILLA!

Here is the WIP.
I actually like some of the overlaps, the "off register" and various levels of treatment here....but since it's for a 9 year old's birthday party....
I'll be bringing it into "focus" a bit more.

(UPDATE):

And the finish...just in time for the party. Whew.
Basically I have a horizontal two sided card, and the individual Godz/MechaGodz mini-standees for all the party tables.




I've also included larger printable images of the two side card/ and the mini-standees for your own downloadable enjoyment.
For the monster standees, just cut on or inside the black line around the beasties, then cut and fold the backer as indicated...glue that sucker on the back of each beastie..and you've got a Kaiju standee for your Godzilla themed bowling party!