Multicolour Octopus Ink Nightmares

As my site would indicate, I like making stuff based on songs. As my "design page" would indicate, I sometimes focus on a particular artist, the UK based Kingbastard. Probably cause I really enjoy his music, and probably cause's he's small and fairly unknown so far, so I think he's less likely to sue me and instead just think I'm a little weird.

Anyway, I would have just posted my latest one on the page, but I made a few versions, and I'll take the moment to plug him further.

Muticolour Octopus Ink Nightmares:

Version 1

Version 2

Version 3

Not much difference between the first two, but the third one is pretty cool. I had a few composition issues and balance problems on the first one (The original) but I solved it by making the background larger, then decided to screw around a bit to see something else. The hardest part of the whole thing was probably the color ball, I had to make several different color balls and tweak them to create the strange color effect. The weird veins were just something added for detail, since the original was kind of silly with just an octopus and a color ball, something of a connection was necessary.

Anyway I'm proud of it so I figured I'd take up internet space with a post about it. The song is from Kingbastard's 2010 "Beautiful Isolation" album. It's probably my favorite album from recent years and is really good for having on when you work. It's one of those dreamscape kinda albums that flows from start to end meanderingly, so on the whole, it's not for single songs but something that is better as a whole then a single part, as concept albums tend to be. Check it out, as well as his other stuff here: http://kingbastardmusic.com/
Do note however, most of his stuff is a little more beat/glitch based then this album might imply.

he also releases lighter-hearted work under the name Myheadisaballoon: http://myheadisaballoon.co.uk/
in fact he just released an album in this persona.