Cinder Bridge Cover Art
Posted by rachelcreative on July 10, 2008
The band Cinder Bridge are using one my drawings for the artwork on a song of theirs.
It’s a great fit as the song “Everyone Knows About Me” is aimed at raising awareness about ME (CFS, CFIDS) and a lot of my work is infused with life with ME.
Cinderkeys, aka Susan Wenger, had been particularly taken by a drawing of mine from February 2007 called “In a Box“.
I attempted a reworking of the drawing – I wanted something that felt more polished than the original furious doodle.
large - “In a Box Again”
But in smoothing out the kinks on the reworking I lost some of the essential essence of the original piece. It lacked the energy (yes how ironic for an artist with ME - energy!), the rawness and emotion.
So we agreed the orginal was the way to go.
large - “In a Box”
Now it’s been typset ready to be used – primarily as artwork for digital download sites. Susan (who knows about these things) says that it might take up to 6 months for it to be available to download from digital music services – but I’ll be following the Cinder Bridge blog for any news.
As the song is all about ME Awareness and as Blogging for International ME/CFS Awareness 2008 brought us into contact with each other to make this all possible, I’m donating 10% of my fee to ME Research UK www.meresearch.org.uk
Nina said
Wahoo!!!!
Shona said
Good stuff, Rach!
ashysheela said
well done
Rachel M said
I’m so proud of you.
Christine said
What fabulous news! Congratulations.
Christ Almond said
I like the reworking, particularly the exquisite shading on the body, but I also think the sketchy original, with less detail and more kineticism, is more suited to purpose. This is great! I can’t wait to hear the song.
Michelle said
Great drawing. Definitely something I think just about everyone can relate to at some point.
And congrats on it being selected as a CD cover. It certainly deserves it.
Mikki said
Fantastic news Rachel!
cusp said
Well isn’t this great. Congratulations ! I listened to the song too on CB’s MySpace and it really is wonderful. Kind of ironic that if it made it into the mainstream a pop song like that could probably do more about informing people about M.E. than all the lobbying in the world. Glad you’re a part of it
cinderkeys said
I don’t think it’s unusual for an original sketch to have more energy, or convey a mood of the moment better, than a more polished drawing based on it. I remember reading a book by a well-known cartoonist who described the same thing happening to him with one of his drawings.
I quite like the reworked In-a-Box, and it does have energy … it’s just happy energy rather than “I am frustrated because I want to break through this wall and can’t energy.”
We sure hope we can get this out into the mainstream. Like Rachel says, we’ll keep you updated.
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