Strivfe - "THE HOURGLASS" Title Card
Added 2019-07-29 14:00:00 +0000 UTC
As previously mentioned, I'm being commissioned to paint title cards for songs on a new album by my old friend Steve Ventresca, aka Strivfe, who I've previously animated music videos for when I was in college (and developed EEnE fanprojects with in high school, lol). This was the third title card painting I did, and from now I'll post them in order, hehe. Here's a directory of Strivfe-related links:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/strivfe/retro-pop-future
These title cards are based on the title cards that play before AKA Cartoons (Ed, Edd n Eddy and Brothers Grunt), so many of them include direct inspiration from specific title cards. This one includes references to my favorite, most surreal EEnE title cards: 'Every Which Way But Ed' and 'It Came From Outer Ed'. The challenge of this one was trying to fuse two very similar title cards (the premise of both is just nonsense floating around in voids) without making it overcrowded, but still conveying the chaos of merging the two images. I hope I achieved that!
Fun Fact: the hardest part is the LETTERING! There are no rules to this font so it's really random figuring out what the letters should look like, and it takes several drafts to find the right shapes and flow and colors to make sure it effectively presents the title.
BONUS STUFF:
Here's the painting without text, followed by my original concept art:
