Ballpeen

pachinko

These images were made without any specific painting, and were done via curves and lines traced over a rough pencil layout in photoshop. The intention was to go with something as stylised as the images on old pachinko machine graphics, so this was all done in an incredibly laborious way with curves and line work to keep everything simple consistent. I think the blood spatters were from a stock image site, but everything else is traced/drawn with the curves tool via a laptop trackpad. Each machine has graphics loosely tied to the lyrical content of the songs on the album, with the cover image being a link back to the Loose Knot EP.

This was released on cassette by Cruel Nature Records
You can find the Ballpeen discography here.