Whilst listening to the album, and looking in to interviews, I began to draw an image of Tom and Josh from Jungle, this was the only image I could find of them, this drawing later became my editorial image. Along with this drawing I also drew a few of the people from the video's, mainly focusing on the video "The Heat", which features two men on roller-blades dancing in what looks to be a dilapidated warehouse.
At this point I had came up with my initial idea, I explain this further in my post on Concept. So I began drawing buildings, and practising how to make them look dilapidated, I also started looking at books on jungles, and drawing the plants from that.
Part way through drawing the buildings and characters I drew an image of a man covered in vines, this image would become the left character on my album cover. Around this time I changed my concept, when listening to the album and looking through my sketchbook, I really felt that nothing I had drawn fit well with the music, except for the vine man. All of the crumbling buildings really didn't feel happy, yet listening to the music, it's upbeat and atmospheric.
I really wanted to go forward with my vine man image, as I thought that it reflected the band perfectly, obscuring their identities was a focus through this project, as during an interview they said they didn't want to become vain, they wanted their musical careers to be about the music, and not about themselves.
I took my vine man drawing digital using the cintiq, and when happy with that, I sketched the second man and took that digitally aswell.
After completing the album cover and using a template to print, I got the idea of a box for my product. You can see the production of my box on my Product process post. I wanted to make the packaging of the CD have a mysterious jungle vibe in a literal sense, and I thought that I could successfully achieve the feel of this product through my love of woodworking.
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