New work

Album artwork for Loop Land by JND

Back in Feb this year JND reached out and asked if I would be interested in doing the artwork for his next album Loop Land. He sent over a rough idea which looked like this:

I immediately loved the idea, but there was no rush… so after a few months pondering I suggested we pushed it a bit further… here’s a scamp I drew up:

JND was happy with this, so I set about trying to construct the rollercoaster! First off was writing out the word:

Then followed hours worth of using AI to generate sections of rollercoaster track so I could build the word. I ended up doing a daytime and nighttime view:

But after living with it for a while I decided it wasn’t working for me… so suggested a change of approach whereby we see a rollercoaster within an empty northern town… something with much more grit. Again, using AI (and after creating hundreds of images), we got there:

You can listen to the album on all the usual streaming platforms now.