For Lucas Lex's (Jack Sadlier) 2020 album "Spider", I helped to design the visuals and worked as a general creative advisor. I also helped to produce a track on the album, "Spinal Tap".
Before we started designing the orb in 3D, Jack named Petscop as a major inspiration. They wanted the album art to be a homage to the Petscop Soundtrack cover:
I then made the concepts below based off of some further discussion (ORBS!). We wanted to go for a more mysterious, magical, wizard-like energy, and I think we accomplished that. I personally used spiritual New Age art as a point of reference.
Jack also sent me an old picture frame clipart to use that didn't make the cut:
For the final official visuals, my friend Ash and I created a small interactive video game, which took heavy inspiration from PS1 horror games. I primarily helped with creating assets for the game, aside from the pieces of concept art shown above. You can see Ash's process on their website.
Here's a title I designed for the game that ended up going unused until the 2022 merchandise collection. I'm still really proud of it!
I also helped design official merchandise for the album:
Lastly, here's a concept mockup for Spider CDs:
