Digital art allows for easier access, convenience, instant shareability and increased productivity. It’s common to think that these advantages = quicker process time and less effort. Bertrand shows us otherwise.
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Well not really. I’m a pretty placid chap. Always have been. But in 1987, as a boy aged 6, I clearly remember seeing a cross, emblazoned with different skulls on a poster somewhere in Leicester.
This was the Guns n Roses cover artwork to their debut album. And I wanted to have it more than anything in the world. More to be the proud owner of this raw and rebellious illustration rather than the music itself. I’m sure at the time I thought it just looked ‘wicked’.
Eventually, after a strong campaign of nagging, my mum succumbed and I was blasting out ‘Welcome to The Jungle’ on my cassette player. This was a watershed moment and my gateway to heavy metal for the next 5 years. I was obsessed with cover artworks, from Iron Maiden to Megadeth.
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