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Illustration by Devon Sandboe, with Colour by H.L. Goyer

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Devon made this piece to use for practicing colour, and then I used it for that purpose as well.

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The Ludvico Treatment asked me to do their new album cover. This is the one they chose.

Art by H.L. Goyer

Type by Alexis Young

P.S. Buy the album!

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Self-Rejected Concept Art for an album cover by H.L. Goyer for The Ludvico Treatment

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I was thinking about how as artists we tend to share mostly what we like best, and probably never our own “rejection” pile. I decided that I would take one of my rejected concepts and see it through to the end as an experiment and share it. For me the result is the same, I still am not fond of it.

The goal here was simple, create something that would be engaging enough to the viewer to check out the music and match the tone word given to me by the band. It also had to match the overall feel of the music from the demo tracks I was handed. 

Overall the tracks were more accessible than some of their earlier offerings (from the general public) and that made me think of butterflies. In the end I realized this concept I had come up with was entrenched with my own suspicions about the music industry and was too personal to me and not enough about the lyrical content on the tracks playing in my ears.

Anyways check out their music, it is quite good. Their upcoming release is a drastic shift from what you’ll hear on there pre-release though, so be sure to come back when the actual album is out. Don’t worry, you know I’ll be posting the successful cover to remind you…

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Old Goat Glacier Trail, Alberta photographed by H.L. Goyer

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This is not even remotely recent, but I completely forgot about it and just found it the other day in a long lost folder sitting on an old backup drive.

If you are looking at the dirty mucky stuff to the left, I think that’s a portion of the glacier but I cannot remember where during the hike this was taken.

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Project Preview: Human Emphasis on Humans by H.L. Goyer

Mixed Media

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I’ve been working this project for a while and it is now complete. It however is on-hold until I have the income to justify having prints made to push it from 99% to 100%. SO, here is 1 out of 15. You will see the rest some day.

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Self Portrait 1, 2013 by H.L. Goyer

Mixed media

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First art I’ve completed in 2013. Off to a slow start.

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…to make you feel without hope, by H.L. Goyer

Digital

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This is meant to be a 6 foot wide print, to be observed in medium-dim light and was designed to make you feel utterly hopeless, if not meaningless in the scope of the universe.

On the one hand, I hope I fail at making you feel this way. On the other, if I succeed it means I am starting to scratch the surface of abstract art.

If only you could see the high res version.

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“Open with a Howling Note” a Book Cover by H.L. Goyer for Otis Monk

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Final revision for a book cover, whatcha think? (The title is to be a Raised UV Coating, aka shiny black and slightly raised from the cover)

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Merciless Sun by H.L. Goyer

Digital

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It is too hot out. I say the same thing every summer.