ILLUS5020: Fungal Pandemic!!

so after doing research I decided to get stuck right into drawing and coming up with some concepts for my band, I decided I was going to go for a possible grungy pop punk band, if that's even 3 genres that can crossover. Well, essentially I was going to take a grungy punk drawing and give it some bright pop colours. At least that's what I was rolling with initially. 

A lot of these were concept sketches that I had come about from combining zombies and mushrooms, of course I did some concept drawings of some 'shrooms too. There was one I specifically remember from home where this tree had to be cut down long before I moved in because of a fungal disease. A few years later since moving in there were these massive mushrooms growing on the side of it, thought they looked cool. I kind of wanted to stick to those kinds of mushrooms instead of the classic toadstools. You can also see in my notes that I was starting to form ideas on how I wanted it to look colour wise (I still lack the confidence to apply colour analogue-y) 

I then moved onto doing some digital thumbnails and concepts, I kind of knew what I was going for at this point with the colour schemes and illustration however I did want to experiment a bit before just to see if I was happy with that I wanted to go for. The program I use for digital art (clip paint studio) also comes with a wide selection of screentones to choose from so I had many options when it came to what kind of sort of effect I wanted with my poster. 

Here are the first 2 I sort of came up with, I wasn't especially happy with either but I was happy to experiment with things on my program to really learn what I can do. I liked the second one I came up with compared to the first however it wasn't the vibe I was going for. It felt more indie than what I was initially planning for. Definitely didn't scream the vibe fungal pandemic as a name shouts to me. So I moved onto my final idea. 

I'm actually super happy how this came out, I combined my initial sketch I did in my sketchbook and managed to colour it digitally. It's kind of rough but I also really like that, it definitely fits the vibe more. It's gory like I wanted it to be, there are subtle nods to corona which I definitely wanted and it's definitely something I like. I mean it could possibly do with more refinement sure but I'm happy with it !