New album artwork

[blacksheep06A]

I found this, posted in a digital artists forum in March 07:

Satan I, Per Øyvind Haagensen (2D)

Title: Satan I
Name: Per Øyvind Haagensen
Country: United Kingdom
Software: Photoshop

Hello everyone,
here's my first take on a painting of the evil one himself: Satan, in all his unholy glory, or at least one side of it.
I wanted the painting to have energy and a sense of mystery to it, almost a religious feel, and some symbolism (which I won't go into.. I'll leave that to your interpretation =).
Painted in Photoshop (with a wacom) over the period of a week. I sketched some very basic studies for the poses with pencil on paper which I scanned in, just to have something to start with (I find it easier to work from something other than a digital blank canvas). Mostly round brush and the chalk brush, but also some custom brushes for the smaller textures. Final image is about 7000 pixels in height.
Hope the image is to your liking =)
C&C + questions are very much welcome.

Per
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Look at the image:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=476908

For H&H's cover it was slightly modified, but is the same pic definitely.

Artist's homepage:
http://www.artbyper.com/


So - it looks like it wasn't created for the album, or for an album at all. It's actually two years old. They must have found it, and liked it so much they put it on the cover ...

[Rhonda Ross]

This subject has been covered in another area, but I shall leave this open since it is a total different topic from news...
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[Worthless_Soul]

That`s some interesting reading! Thanx for the link blacksheep06A!

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[EivindFP]

Must be really cool for him!
saw that he is working for Funcom in Oslo, so he must have a lot of experience with designing stuff