the lonesome crowded west

dnp and team reached out to me with a new concept for dnpb album. Their prompt was essentially “podcast set, but cosy”.

They sent me a couple of ideas that solidified a clear image in my mind. Their pitches were “lounging on an inflatable sofa” “including the lava lamp” “retro imac w/ album title” and most importantly, “Richard balls”

Now, if you noticed, I drew the “plastic pendant light” thingy hanging from the top, but I removed it at the final render. Simply, it didn’t mesh with the rest of the background, so I removed it.

reference pic for unused pendant lamp and rocket⤴️

So the elements I added to their ideas were using the pod set as flooring; they wanted to chill among clouds, so I made the lava blobs float like clouds. Now I know the rocket and lava goo look a bit phallic, but what do you expect from a dnp project?

Binary gay stars orbiting each other or whatever in the background: that's what dnp’s souls do when the world ends.

Coloring: I wanted to convey a well air conditioned room, and blue is a lazy relaxed color.

Posing: relaxed, chill, comfortable. Cute with an attitude.

reference pic for Richard balls, Phil looking stoked af ⤴️

outfit reference ofc and mainly used for color picking⤴️

many good references for the sofa, I relied on the SketchUp model the most⤴️