I wonder if we could make our own art. I mean, not me, everything I draw looks like it's melted, but there's a lot of very talented creatives here. Fun idea! Or not.
Hugh Syme's booklet art is still a little hit and miss, but tends to be better than his covers. Enemy Within's artwork, I thought was dreadful. Goldmine thing looked a little off. This is neat.
If the cover's him (which it almost definitely is), it's probably his best illustration I've seen so far this album cycle. Prob rank this second? From the two thirds we've seen, anyway.
Really lacks a focal point, mind.
Dangit rob, I've already given you a warning for this!
And it is Syme.
Arg! I'm only in my tenth year as a Dream Theater fan, you'd think I'd be able to get their songs' names right by now.
Clearly Syme from the booklet art, but the cover art is a little less steeped in his signature style, so I thought I'd wait for confirmation before outright presuming it was all the same guy - I do own albums where the booklet and the cover are by two different people. Cheers, sir!
My bad Kotowboy. Sorry.
No idea if they're intentionally or not, although I'll assume they're intentional, as I don't know how they'd get there accidentally. It does look like where the tide has come in, and maybe the dug out Majesty logo is causing more water to pool along the vertical bars causing it to be more wet/dark. Dunno! Looks like a nice effect to me though.
I wondered if it might have been from duplicating the texture as it runs down the beach. Like, if there was a darker patch in the texture, maybe it became dark lines when it was repeated? Either way, I like it. It gives the beach shape, depth and perspective. Might've looked like a flat block of colour, without them.