I’m making steady progress on the image for the “Touch of Destiny” cover. I’ve reproduced the lyrics below the image you can see the kind of themes and images I was aiming for.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
Touch of Destiny (lyrics)
VERSE 1
Adrift in Kyoto nights
Between conveyer lives
Her finger pressed send
The extra puzzle piece
To the future planned out east
Like cookie cutters
CHORUS
In the summer she drifted to me
Like a reed in a stream finds an eddie
Now she’s nothing but faint memories
Of a future that wasn’t to be
And I’m searching for strange families
In the cafes and lantern-lit alleys
Under skies of a dead channel grey
Fragile memories are fated to fade
CHORUS 2
Just one day in every 10 years
She steps off a ship of her fears
Let the souls of the dead drift away,
Til the sun burns the remnants of day
Cos I’m searching for strange families
In the clubs and the cable-strewn alleys
Under skies of a dead channel grey
Fragile memories are fated to fade
VERSE 2
Tattooed behind the ear
To mark the day the fear
And trauma marked her
Now she can’t meet my eyes
An open circuit dies
If you can’t close it
Chorus 3
In the summer she drifted to me
Like a touch of destiny
Like a past life was starting to bleed
Into this future reality
And I’m searching for community
In the cafes and lantern-lit alleys
Under skies of a dead channel grey
Fragile memories are fated to fade
Here’s a composite of a beach I liked, with a dramatic sky.
I added some lighting and shadow effects and altered the color of the background to create the feel I was looking for.
I then took a photo of a model in a shawl and painted in to the image to give the folds of the gown a Michelangelo Buonarroti quality.
I then added the figure to the beach background and worked some more on the lighting and shadows to make the figure sit in his environment and to give the image the emotion I was looking for.
via Tumblr http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ofriceandzen/~3/-fQNt3_zIgw/35403926302
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