drawing The Art of Dying | the Gojira project

Gojira in the studio

I'm really loving the videos that Gojira have been posting of their work in the studio - especially the one of Mario drumming on the door. I'm really interested to hear what this experimental work will bring in the next album.

When I first heard Gojira signed to Roadrunner, I wasn't sure what to think - I had really liked the fact that they were really underground. But since their move, we've been getting a lot more interviews and communication from the band. I'm not yet used to seeing them marketed so much, but it's been interesting hear what they've got to say. I'm hoping this move will prove to be really positive for them.

The art of dying > i won't bring no...

Over the past few weeks, I've drawing the first chorus sequence in the Art of Dying. This is one of the central sequence within the song, it's quite heavily textured and absolutely mind-blowing.

 

Here's my original outline of the sequence:

 

The next step was filling in the forground and background, giving texture to the outline.

 

And then I began shading, using Tria markers in 12 shades of gray, to bring out the depth. 

I realized that the lettering has to been done separately and then added in with Photoshop, because the letters are quite fine and really interfer with drawing the hairline textures in the loops - the letters make it difficult to draw the textures in one continuous movement.

You can hear this sequence - which I've labelled sequence #7 - from 4:16 - 4:45 in the video below.