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When I saw the cover for the new Death Cab for Cutie album, I thought to myself, “hey, I’ve seen this before.” Creativity? What’s that?

Cover for Death Cab for Cutie album, \

The Microphones, in 2000
Cover for The Microphones album, \

Les Savy Fav, in 2001
Cover for Les Savy Fav album, \Rear side of Les Savy Fav album, \

Lamb, in 2001
Cover for UK edition of Lamb album, \

Some Waves, originally uploaded by ASurroca.

This one has a simple story. I was working on putting up some new product for my job, and really dug the purple/green color scheme of this bike seat.

This one’s got tons of the screen door effect and pretty much requires viewing at full size to appreciate.



The Sunset Glint, originally uploaded by ASurroca.

Still at the artwork in Photoshop… I started off with this piece, took out all the ribbony bits, and focused on turning the photos into this abstract piece here. I did add a few new ribbony bits that (purposely) make a screen-door effect.



In Rainbows, originally uploaded by ASurroca.

Why the title? Duh. I started making something bright and airy and with a white background, and I ended up with this instead.

Reminds me of the Stanley Donwood’s artwork for Radiohead’s current album. I’d say it’s inspired by it, but it really isn’t; this is just the way this bit ended up looking.

Full disclosure:
I used a few of my old photos for this.



One Drive Cable, originally uploaded by ASurroca.

I’m still on a color kick, and filled with much linear love. Once again, I headed over to COLOURlovers to make myself a five-color palette and got to work.

If you cannot tell, this is a hard disk drive cable; well, it would be an HDD cable, were HDD cables less boring in real life.

Such a Colorful City

Just finished a new little bit of really colorful artwork… from my flickr photostream

I sat idly for a couple hours, and came up with this in the meantime. Since I wanted something colorful, naturally, my first stop was COLOURlovers, where I used their palette design app to come up with the five-color palette used here.

I’ve been drawing in black and white for ages; it’s been a long time since I put some color in my work. I think it’s a welcome addition. God, I love color. How could I have stayed away for so long?