God with mohawk cartoon character

This cartoon illustration of "God" with a mohawk was created for Christian rock musician Steve Kropp's CD album cover. The title of the album is "Ancient Future", and the concept behind the recording was to take older, traditional church music & songs and update them with a more modern feel for the younger audience.

The client's supplied concept was to have a God character side-by-side with a punk rocker type character, showing that they could exist together. Being a more singular-minded person, I wanted to come up with a concept that expressed the same concept, but more directly. When I thought "god" I thought of the figure sitting in the clouds, flowing robes and long hair – and that's when it hit me. The expected long beard and long hair would be perfectly contrasted if we game God a bright pink mohawk.

The whites and blues of the clouds and robes again worked perfect for that juxtaposition to really stand out. Both the client and I agreed that this was the way to go, and the sketch was worked up. Final art was hand-vectored in Adobe Illustrator.

In addition to developing the illustration for the CD cover art, I also designed the Ancient Future CD cover as well.

 

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