Some pics of the making of the Cavefire Cinema album ‘Discipline’. The guys were after two samurai meditating in a Japanese setting prior to a fight to the death.
I decided to use a 6 panel roll fold design to allow it to ‘wrap-around’ – like a metaphor for the cycle of life and death. Theres also a whole bunch of other hidden meaning. For example, the artwork beneath the disc shows the blood spattered ground (death) while the disc itself is a view of the sky representing the view the dieing warrior sees before his spirit is released… represented by a soaring eagle.
I started by gathering a ton of research on samurais from movie screenshots, and other photos. Then I did some rough sketches, composited them in photoshop, and printed them out to ink by hand.
Then I scanned those back into photoshop and coloured everything, and put it into Indesign for the layout side of things.
You can check out some pics of the finished artwork on my portfolio.





