Darkest Days

Named after the song by Black Label Society, this artwork was featured on the label design of one of my Hopsylvania beers. Choosing the Grim Reaper as the subject for this label resonated both with the song itself as well as the band’s new album at the time, titled “Grimmest Hits”. The illustration on its own took over 20 hours to complete, most of which was spent just stippling, followed by digital coloring and texture work. When it came to colors, I wanted to only add a few accents here and there, so I went with the same dark olive green that was on the cover of their album, keeping everything else just dark, gray, and grim… as it should be.

This illustration © 2018 by Radu Luchian is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0CCBYNCND

Darkest Days