RABIDGROUNDS

a flea on the mind
In 2020, I created the album art for the band’s self titled album rabidgrounds. The
band had discussed with me that they were interested in creating a personal motif of two black dogs and wanted the album art to be original artwork of this. I created original artwork illustrations with gouache, ink, graphite, and colored pencil. I wanted to be minimal with the artwork and highly stylized rather than highly rendered and illustrative. I also created a motif of the line running across the cover, the line trailing from the dog’s bloodied mouth to be clever incorporation of their ideas and mine. When the band decided to have CDs of the album made, I was then asked to design the backside of the album with the track listing and other necessary information. The band desired a serif typeface for this design as well. I continued the line motif to the backside of the CD to be the guideline for where the track listing would rest. The color palette on the backside reflected the color palette on the front side. The disc design utilized the same typeface but with a glowing effect on the type. The rest of the disc design was the same charcoal black shade as was used on the album cover. This disc was then printed through Atomic Disk.

drown with the kudzu girl
The band reached out to me in 2022 for single art for their single “slack pistol” for their second upcoming album. The creation of this work spawned from charcoal studies I had created of the human skeletal form in college classes. Then the single was created through digital manipulation.

through the looking glass
The band reached out to me in 2022 for single art for their single “cassandra” for their second upcoming album. The creation of this work spawned from charcoal studies I had created of the human form and drapery in college classes. Then the single was created through digital manipulation. During the process of this I was reached out for a small animation intro to the beginning of their music video for “cassandra.” This animation was also inspired from those charcoal studies.

beginning is end to the ending
Spring 2023 I reached out to the band rabidgrounds with a merch design for them. In the design, I incorperated worked in imagery that alluded to their self titled album art and many different lyrics from their debut album, as well as being a rework of the original “The Moon” tarot card design from the Rider-Waite tarot deck. The black ouroboros snake references the track “blacksnake”, the pink sun references the track “crawl”, and the red line work references the track “crimson.” The dogs, crab, and scorpion reference motifs from the original tarot card design of the Rider Waite tarot deck, but reworked to fit into the brand of the band and symbology important to the band. This design was then release as stickers, and then shirts. When printed, this design was printed on a holographic background for stickers. These stickers had a limit run in Summer of 2023, being mostly sold at rabidgrounds shows. Later in the summer of 2023, this design was turned into a T-shirt design by fellow artist and printmaker Alex Edwards. Each T-shirt was screen printed by hand and entirely unique. these shirts were also sold at rabidgrounds shows and used in a giveaway for the band celebrating their 2024 EP release.

Supplemental photography was taken by me as well.