Artist and Illustrator

When I was presented with a second Album cover brief by Ruslan I was overjoyed. The creative freedom to execute a particular visual is always a pleasure.

The bleak themes of the album required a similar bleak and borderline depressing stylistic rendering. Limiting colours to tones of grey, brown-greens and subtle blue. 

All in the aims of conveying a run-down socialist-era apartment building hoping that the intended audience; majority Russian, can connect on a level of recognisability and nostalgia, be it good, bad or otherwise.

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We were excited at the potential of the album artwork receiving similar attention and criticism to the previous; due to it breaking the expectations for folk or instrumental music. 

Usual subject matter is that of a more positive, uplifting or relaxing nature, also often including nature.