King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - SoYoung Magazine competition

This is my entry for the SoYoung magazine illustration competition. This magazine is a very recent conception, with a relatively small but rapidly expanding fan base. This competition is the first I have heard of them but I think that it could be something that turns into a long time interest, as they seem to invest a lot of time into music illustration, something that other bigger music magazines don’t really seem to properly consider.

The brief was to illustrate a song by any band featured in the magazine, so I chose King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard for this, to embrace the weirder side of my practice that I’ve been looking at a little bit in COP.

IDER - Body Love

This week I was featured on the instagram account of the London based electronic duo band Ider. Their recently released song Body Love has been at the front of my mind since I first heard it, so making an illustration in response to it was inevitable. The difference this time was that I wanted this work to exist outside my own portfolio and maybe find a place to exist in the real world, connected to the music that inspired it.
I emailed the band’s manager and she was kind enough to get back to me and send the image on to the band. I don’t know if anything more could arise from this interaction, but it does feel exciting and progressive to start to reach out to these people and find some of them are excited to see your work as well. The illustration was featured on their instagram, and they have my name now, so hopefully I can send some more work their way when the time is right and I have a few more ideas in response to their music.

Bad Sounds @ The Brudenell

Last night I went to the Brudenell again for another gig, this time the band Bad Sounds. It’s become a lot easier to talk to people at these shows, as I often find people in the industry of creating anything, be it visual art or music, are usually on quite similar wavelengths. It’s been great to be able to talk to these bands at a level like this, as illustrating album covers and even a form of music reportage are both something that I would love to become incorporated into my practice going forward, especially after university. Through talking to them, I found out that all the bands visual stuff, such as album art and merchandise, is currently done by themselves. I found it really interesting to find this out, as it's evidence that you arent limited to a single field creatively, and can encompass a lot of different aspects to work that relates to one another inside your practice.