A Local band from Wakefield, Called 'Wolfe Trap', wanted some artwork for their promotional material. They're a indie/folk band, and they liked the work i'd been doing and wanted something similar for their stuff.
This was some quick, spot-illustration type stuff, so I knocked them up fairly quickly. Because of the genre of music they make, I didn't want to do anything too heavily reliant on digital artwork because I didn't think it would fit with their tone of voice - so I chose to do this all analogous, with digital media being used to clean up the scan files ready for screen and print.
I used watercolour and pencil for all of these. They're designed to work on numerous formats - record covers, t-shirts, mugs, more merchandise...etc.... heres what some of them look like mocked up:
When I first did these, I was kind of on the fence about how I felt about them - but putting them in context, they look pretty good! I didn't think they'd look good on merch - being analogously generated and all - but I think they actually do look quite professional.
My main worry for this kind of stuff is for printing - since textures and opacities don't always print very well, especially on T-shirts. I'm still trying to find a way of working that incorporates a lot more of my analogous work - whilst still being appropriate for printing onto stuff.
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