Well I had a quicksharp project set for me over the weekend. The cover art for the Fortune Drive album wasn’t working out so I was given the chance to have a crack at it on Friday or so, deadline Sunday night. Problem was I was working Friday til 4am and the same on Saturday so a bit of time on Saturday afternoon and Sunday was all I really had.

I fucking love Fortune Drive which gave me the impetus, but might also have made me a bit too precious in retrospect. Saturday was spent drawing shit pictures of Bobby singing from grainy video, but by Sunday afternoon I’d managed to get a bit more of a feel for what they were after. In the end I was knackered from the late nights by about 10pm on Sunday so I only cranked out one idea and a variation.

All of which is a massive excuse for ‘They didn’t go with it.’ Apparently the slingshot version went down well but email shite meant it wasn’t recieved til 1am after work on monday night after the cover they went with was discovered. If the internet wasn’t such a bitch, maybe they never would’ve seen the one they preferred and I would therefore now be a megastar (in my mirror). Anyway, a bit of a taste of a live brief with the conclusion that: There’s no point in being precious just because you care.

Enough guff.

First go…

Some variations…

A response to some feedback…