This is piece is an Album cover made for experimental music artist Mosaique.
Is music as a cold and distant feeling to it, hard to ear sometimes, it can be soft, mellow or almost unnoticeable as it can be hard, high pitched and loud. It is experimental music in which he uses a lot of feedback to compose the music itself.

When he requested this cover he asked for sober colors, a minimalist approach and a connection to the name of the album which is distant tales and repressed memory.
I think I achieved them all except the minimalism.

As I was listening to his music I found that minimalism doesn't go well with repressed memories nor the kind of music he makes. So I just let myself be guided with his music. It did start minimalist indeed, but has his music flourished and revealed itself to me I found out that it had nothing of minimalist, it had Animalistic, but no minimalism.
So this is what came out and the client enjoyed it very much, so all is good.

The piece is still going for some final art corrections, the logo, some small details that nobody will ever notice will be tweaked, the hue will suffer slightly as the client wants a bit more saturation.

So please let me know, what you think of this piece, what details I could change, color etc...
And how you've done it would also be interesting to know.
Cheers.

p.s. to the people who've been my deviant friends and have been checking my work for a couple of years already.

I know that this is my first piece in what I think is a couple of years. I'm sorry for completely disappearing, I've been popping up once in a while to check your messages and notes but not to view or comment your work. I'm very sorry I've disappointed some.

This piece however believe it or not is the first rule free creative work I've done since Supernova 11:22 I think that's the name of it.
So imagine the terrible creative restrain I've been having in my life. Just terrible. I thought I lost my touch (the touch you and friends say I have) and was terrified to sit on the computer on my free time to do just SOMETHING!! Nothing would come out and I just dedicated myself to graphic design as my job. No more crazy stuff, just strength lines, balance rules, negative/positive space management, typography, remove/add..

Anyway, I was clearly on a rush when I did this as I clearly went on another path that the client set up for me, and he was blown away.
So hopefully I'll keep doing this.

A friend told me this.
"Creativity is a thing of its own, it has its own agenda and uses you(us people) as a medium if you're worthy."

At first I didn't really like the words medium and worthy. But upon thinking a bit on what's worthy. In this case being worthy is being receptive for creativity, not restrain yourself with rules like I have, There should be no rules on the canvas. And that's the mistake I made when I was setting my own company, that things have to be done this way because of what this great designer said, and that has to be done that way because of what this philosopher said. Though it might help to make money because you just use other people’s molds and standards it blocks your creativity receptivity. I ended up doing nice looking well polished and correct jobs, where people were like "yes, this is good thank you very much, here's your check" but they weren't blown away like this last client. Simply because my contribution wasn't there, they were dull, no creativity, no erection, no sex in them (like Mr. jobs says) they got get exactly what they wanted but they didn't learn anything, because my job as a visual artist wasn't carried out 100%, I gave them what they wanted but not what they don't know they want.

I learned my lesson there. Conclusion? hum... Balance!! The same fucking word that has been splattered in all my pieces here. Libra, the what's is name of Polarity, the Symmetry of I can't remember. In my own Gregorian symbol which is the scales, in my Mayan one as well... Right in front of my eyes. I'm glad I learned this lesson while I'm still young. Must not forget again!!

So cheers everybody and lets all together!!