Tortured skull sketch

Hell- o out there,

Since this sketch seemed to gain alot of recognition during the time I uploaded to facebook, I think I should post here in my blog art aswell. What it started as a simple bus sketch during a doom driven travel home, If followed with a tortured photoshopped version of a very rough pencils, but with a lot of feedback for waht I´ve seen.
Personally I don´t think it is so killer design as many have stated, but this only demonstrates how unexpected fussy this artistic business is,right?


Carlos.

Marthyrium shirt design

As talked in previous post, here you are the final design  shirt for Marthyrium Black Metal band,  depicting an upsided down skull cross whic a goat skull on its top, and another different one on the "crossroads" made from both elements of the cross. In that skull I decided to add a sorrounding chain to give the skull a more metallic menacing vibe ( if possible), and rest of cross is made of human skulls, being inspired in the old Swedish Death Metal imaginery ( like Excruciate´s logo) and in the sentence given by Alvaro from the band , "summoning the scythe of human extinction".

Despite the design wasn´t used on shirts, Alvaro paid  my work and kept the cross for future band designs, and would like to state He´s the most serious client I´ve ever had. I wish everybody in this business were like him...


Carlos.

Marthyrium sigil

Hell there,

When I got in touch with Black Metal band Marthyrium from Spain, they wanted to get a shirt design and a sigil for representing them, both phillosophically and visually. Due to this, I decided to work on a sigil based in an inverted triangle ( representing the inversion of Christian values), and adding a totalitarian touch to it, by drawing barbed wire and inverted crosses within. Further, I also wanted to give the design a some sort of personal one, therefore the "M" enclosed in the middle of the triangle, and to end the piece, I gave the triangle a dirty look by drawing spurts on it, representing its filth, and a reptilian tongue in the vertex, givint the final rendering the evil looking touch it needed.


In next post, I´ll  write about their skull cross illustration I made for them.


Carlos.

Zarathustra interview frame for TWIB zine # 3

 Going on with frame art topic, here I´ve uploaded a frame made for the interview I conducted years ago for German Black Metallers Zarathustra, for metal underground publication There where I belong zine # 3. 


As usual in my way of  frame working, I´ve tried to join as many similar elements as possible, creating something in communion with the philosophy//attitude of the client. Thus, I´ve drawn some sort of beholding time reaper, being sorrounded by an snake ( as shown in band´s artwork). Feel free to drop some feedback.

Carlos.

Fiery Path Distro frame

 Hell there, these are  different versions of a frame made for Spanish Underground Metal music distro called Fiery Path, originally intended as flyer frame. I really like the way it turned out, and symmetrics add a classy touch to its macabre vibe, isn´it?


Carlos.

Luxi Lahtinen´s b- day gift

As headline says, this is my birthday present  to Luxi Lahtinen, cult Finnish illustrator (who made Death Metal band Avulsed logo, Abhorrence ep cover,or  debut  album cover and original Sentenced stuff, among others). Dedication is made in Finnish, saying something like "Fucking morbid birthday!!! Rot in Metal forever....".

Really cool, isn´t it?:-)

Carlos.

Pest Bringer

Raising from the very bowells of my old archives from 2010, here I introduce you my supposedly zine mascot, the keeper of grimorium section called Pest bringer. Love all the idea, but have to admit my anatomical mistakes make the piece gets lowered in terms of quality. Anyway, still like it, taking into account how old the drawing is.


Carlos.