So last week we successfully managed to source an artist, Jordan Grimmer, who designed Cthulhu for us as well as the artwork we have used for the DVD cover. We have placed all in an art portfolio with the package, documenting each image in it's progress state as Jordan sent to us. The final designs look as follows.
With the first image, we expressed to him from the original designs from Domastas, that we wanted to use a similar head for the creature, and colour a greeny, brown body. We asked for rather long arms as well as decayed wings, which can be seen on his back, they are currently not spread. We feel the design worked perfectly, and just how we imagined.
For this second image, we wanted Cthulhu with his arm stretched out towards the person viewing the image. This image however was subject to a lot of change as I worked things out with Jordan. Initially, we were going to have Cthulhu underwater, again, with his hand reached out. It looked good, however still looked relatively plain, like in the first image. Talking to Jamie Shaw, who was in charge of the dvd design, he thought it would look better if Cthulhu was out of the water, surrounded by buildings on either side, as if he was already on a New York street, with a stormy clouds over head. Again this looked good, but we asked Jordan to place Fire and Smoke below him, which gave a sense of the impending destruction that he would cause.
It was a good experience working with Jordan, and was well worth the money. Not giving him a clear direction for the second image hindered us slightly, and meant we had to ask Jordan to put some more time into the piece. However by doing so, I believe we got the perfect artwork done for our piece. Having mocked the second one up into a poster, with the titles on the bottom and the tagline "Evil from the Depths" above Cthulhu, I am very happy with the end results.
In future however, I need to sort this out quicker, as I neglected thinking of someone for the main design, due to many dropouts, however, it all worked out in the end, and we couldn't have chosen a better artist.
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