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Goddamit Bluesky why can't you add alt text AFTER posting

Look at ittttttttt!

Also, look out for the 8 new tracks from Smokey Bastard, coming out in exactly 2 weeks.

Above you can see the initial sketch, followed by first colours and the final final image. Go on, have a look. Zoom in if you can, look at that fuckin detail!

Anyway, go check out his stuff immediately and if you have a big project coming up and need some art seriously consider giving him a look.

After talking, and finding out he'd already done covers for other bands, it was an easy ask.

We sent him off a list of what we sort of wanted (8 jars each representing one of the 8 tracks) and he got to work, not only doing as asked but adding idea after idea into the mix, always improving things.

especially leaning into a sort of wood carving style shading that looks amazing zoomed out and amazing in a completely different way when zoomed in. It all leans into the folksy timelessness, a modern nostalgia AND cute whimsy all at once. Fucking brilliant.

do a great job of inventing just the best little fuzzy guys ever, BUT ALSO he is a complete master of lighting depicting it in a way that is a signature all of his own,

Soon afterwards as I was wandering round a convention hall, I noticed the work of an incredible artist @simonjcurd.bsky.social who I instantly bought a t-shirt off. I was just really struck by his ability to depict complicated atmospheres, AND

We initially had a few ideas floating around for what we wanted, ranging from some flying whales, to a crusty old rag and bone man, to finally landing on creepy shelves of a creepy lab housing creepy creatures in jars.