This was commissioned promotional art for my friend Tim Burke, an author of the strange, horrific, and humorous (all at the same time). The novel is called Saints of Flesh, a sequel to his first novel, Flesh Sutra.
For this promotional art, Tim wanted a magical emblem that utilized sacred geometry, but it needed to be "evil" sacred geometry. He provided several designs he liked that were proper geometric diagrams, as well as a traditional yantra design, and said to me, pervert them. He wanted them to be eye-searing, almost painful to look at. They needed to be off; the measurements and shapes tweaked so that they're just a hair out of true.
I'd originally wanted to make all the red linework into bones, but after we played around with designs back and forth, Tim favored a simpler approach. The red and aqua dance in front of my eyes, and tweaked just a little in Photoshop, the design is deliberately almost painful to look at for very long. Tim, of course, has made merchandise out of it, so it can be wrongity-wrongly-wrong on all kinds of stuff, including t-shirts and laptop stickers, and all kinds of cool stuff.
I worked out the geometric design on the computer, printed it out, then colored it with Prismacolors. The dark background is also Prismacolor. I don't know if it shows up well here, but the imagery is comprised entirely of muscle fibers and eyes. Lots of eyes. Oh God, So Many EYES.
For this promotional art, Tim wanted a magical emblem that utilized sacred geometry, but it needed to be "evil" sacred geometry. He provided several designs he liked that were proper geometric diagrams, as well as a traditional yantra design, and said to me, pervert them. He wanted them to be eye-searing, almost painful to look at. They needed to be off; the measurements and shapes tweaked so that they're just a hair out of true.
I'd originally wanted to make all the red linework into bones, but after we played around with designs back and forth, Tim favored a simpler approach. The red and aqua dance in front of my eyes, and tweaked just a little in Photoshop, the design is deliberately almost painful to look at for very long. Tim, of course, has made merchandise out of it, so it can be wrongity-wrongly-wrong on all kinds of stuff, including t-shirts and laptop stickers, and all kinds of cool stuff.
I worked out the geometric design on the computer, printed it out, then colored it with Prismacolors. The dark background is also Prismacolor. I don't know if it shows up well here, but the imagery is comprised entirely of muscle fibers and eyes. Lots of eyes. Oh God, So Many EYES.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Abstract
Species Unspecified / Any
Gender Other / Not Specified
Size 691 x 700px
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