HoserHellspawn
Pixel Manipulator
The cover for a video game I made as my final project at CDIS called "Fixation". The 'game' was an interactive multimedia CD-ROM created using Macromedia Director.
Your own cd cover art!
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HoserHellspawn
Pixel Manipulator
HoserHellspawn
Pixel Manipulator
HoserHellspawn
Pixel Manipulator
Dum de dum... shall I keep going?
This is the cover of a CD of random crap I burned from MP3's, hence it's humourously non-subtle title.
This is the cover of a CD of random crap I burned from MP3's, hence it's humourously non-subtle title.
HoserHellspawn
Pixel Manipulator
This is the cover for my Dan Swano compilation CD (which kicks ass) that I made a while ago. The tracklisting is as follows:
1. Twilight - Edge of Sanity
2. The Spring - Unicorn
3. Waterfall - Unicorn
4. Scarred for Life - Nightingale
5. I Am Two - Odyssey
6. Sacrificed - Edge of Sanity
7. Hiding Again - Unicorn
8. Losing Myself - Edge of Sanity
9. The Dreamreader - Nightingale
10. Steal the Moon - Nightingale
11. Uncreation - Dan Swano
12. Black Tears - Edge of Sanity
13. Revival - Nightingale
14. Alonley - Nightingale
15. I Return - Nightingale
16. At the End of the Bridge - Unicorn
1. Twilight - Edge of Sanity
2. The Spring - Unicorn
3. Waterfall - Unicorn
4. Scarred for Life - Nightingale
5. I Am Two - Odyssey
6. Sacrificed - Edge of Sanity
7. Hiding Again - Unicorn
8. Losing Myself - Edge of Sanity
9. The Dreamreader - Nightingale
10. Steal the Moon - Nightingale
11. Uncreation - Dan Swano
12. Black Tears - Edge of Sanity
13. Revival - Nightingale
14. Alonley - Nightingale
15. I Return - Nightingale
16. At the End of the Bridge - Unicorn
Wow Hoser, those are really professional looking?
Did you make up the logos for those bands too? And do you charge for your work?
Did you make up the logos for those bands too? And do you charge for your work?
Sullen Jester
Corporate Executive
Those are very masterful pieces of art.
I commend you on your work, one Hoser.
How long approximately does it take you to create them?
I commend you on your work, one Hoser.
How long approximately does it take you to create them?
Lina
kickass elizabethan style
*sigh*
those are just ridiculously beautiful, hoser. i'm so truly amazed and proud that you're one of us. what amazes me the most is the creative aspect of it -- you coming up with those pictures in your head. speaking as someone without a drop of creativity in my body, it's almost depressing, because it makes me realize how utterly incapable i am of ever even conceiving anything like that.
you HAVE to be able to make some money from that.
those are just ridiculously beautiful, hoser. i'm so truly amazed and proud that you're one of us. what amazes me the most is the creative aspect of it -- you coming up with those pictures in your head. speaking as someone without a drop of creativity in my body, it's almost depressing, because it makes me realize how utterly incapable i am of ever even conceiving anything like that.
you HAVE to be able to make some money from that.
HoserHellspawn
Pixel Manipulator
I created the logos for Thales and Soul Forlorn, yes, although Thales have moved on to a new one (check out http://thalesmusic.cjb.net), designed by a friend of Hearse's, so the website's layout has been updated accordingly.
It's probably not good business or whatever to discuss publicly too much about the financial stuff, but basically, some of it I've been paid for and some of it I haven't - usually due to the promise of future work for which I will be paid for, an example being that I haven't charged Thales for anything yet, but would like to do their first studio album and be paid for that.
I am trying to make it a policy to charge for client work, at least when it comes to covers for albums that will be sold. It's kind of a dream of mine to be able to make money doing this kind of work (to be the "next Travis Smith", hehe) but at the same time, I am realistic about needing to get my name out there, and the financial situations bands and their members are in. (Of course, this only pertains to the client work as most of the stuff posted here are personal things I really did just for fun)
Some of them I can knock off in an hour or two, others take weeks. It depends on a few variables: if I have the image data, if I have what is to be the "final" concept, what the complexity of that concept is, etc. Taking the necessary photos takes time, as does discussing what the image should be and figuring out how to go about it. If I'm just taking one of my pre-existing photos, tinkering with it a little, and adding a logo and/or some text, it doesn't take all that long at all. For Hammering Moss, I just took some random stuff I was working on for fun and put "Hammering Moss" on it. Five minutes - done. The UM splash page I had to confirm a concept with Mark, take custom photos for, get them developed and scanned, then put the whole thing together - it took a couple of weeks.
Thanks for the praise, Lina, but that's actually exactly wrong. For most of the stuff I do, I look into my archive of photos that I've taken, get them into photoshop, and start experimenting and see what I come up with. There are only 2 images I have ever completely visualized first and then sought out to create: The UM splash page, and the early-completed cover for Soul Forlorn's (yet uncomplete) second album, neither of which are here.
The two best ones I've posted here (IMO) are the Soul Forlorn "A Love So Dark" cover and the "Ambient Domains" disc 1. For both of those, I just started with a picture, and saw where I could go with it.
Here's another example of pure experimentation (although not an album cover). I just ran what ended up being the squarish background part through some filters (to get it that way), then tried adding some photos I hadn't really found a use for yet. When I found a way to put those pieces together... I added some more stuff, got some ideas along the way, then had this.
MetalManCPA
Papa Opeth
Hoser - awesome work
one question - on your 5-CD collection, is that a "Where's Waldo" theme going on (or should I say "Where's Hoser?")?
one question - on your 5-CD collection, is that a "Where's Waldo" theme going on (or should I say "Where's Hoser?")?
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The_Wanderer
In search for truth
damnit hoser youve took over my thread! man those cd covers are so awesome, I know if I ever release a cd and need some awesome work I know who to look for 
Id pay you anything you want for a cover like those (hopefully sex, since im outa money) 
man those cd covers are so awesome, I know if I ever release a cd and need some awesome work I know who to look for Id pay you anything you want for a cover like those (hopefully sex, since im outa money) 
Lakestream
Member
hoser is da rule! freakin! i'm such an idiot when it comes to graphic design... maybe you could give us all some lessons
all praise the mighty hellspawn!
all praise the mighty hellspawn!
Lakestream
Member
I can't see the cover I posted, and I'm not sure if anyone else can either, so here's the link:
http://hem.passagen.se/lakes/bspiritcover.jpg
http://hem.passagen.se/lakes/bspiritcover.jpg
Sullen Jester
Corporate Executive
Blackspirit
there are no words left
THIS ONE!!! OH MY GOD!!!!
I have fallen in love with this photo!!
))) It's just absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!!
It's perfect in my eyes....
I love how I can see the trees, they are not blury
at all, it's almost as if they are real, but still they
look like trees from a fairytale!
) It's like I know that place!
) Reminds me a lot of the nature in Norway.
You're my hero Hoser
) *bows head* Yummee
) This pic is great.... I think I'll have to put it on my desktop >
P
