Beginning work the client I started with a meeting where we spoke about our shared interests in art, and I learned some of the stories that inspired the author. This lead well into further understanding the brief introduction of the book and why the writer chose to title it “Gargoyle”.
Next, we shared a folder online where we spent the following days uploading images for inspiritation, from album covers to screenshots of news shows from the 80’s. This sparked the initial drafts to be styled as though the graphics were grabbed from a VHS demo tape with an eerie distorted effect only possible through analog technology.
I decided the best way to achieve this effect was not to synthesize it, but go straight to the source of this unpredictable phenomenon coined as “glitch art.” Luckily, a close friend and collaborator had a CRT Television and the gear to import it to his laptop. I made prepared the graphic and to give it the initial pixelated texture I ran it through an ASCII art generator I found online. After my friend sent the newly glitched images back it was time to start cleaning it up for the front cover.