We witnessed the NFT market cool down the last few weeks with the exception of a few new projects which were able to sell out in a matter of minutes or hours. But mainstream media are always eager for sensational headlines so they jumped on the downward trend, proclaiming NFTs to be dead. Skirmishes between Meebits and Apes completely ruined the piety of this NFTs funeral.
I drew a sketch with the main motif of lettering in the skull shape reading: 'NFT's NOT DEAD', clearly referencing the best-known motto of the punks all around the world.
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But as you can see in the timelapse video, this cover creation wasn't a straight path from start to finish. Somewhere in the middle I showed it to Redlion and he didn't like the graffiti lettering much. (Actually, he said it was ugly :D) The skull shape was not clear but clumsy, so I scratched this solution completely and started building new with cleaner typography. It was a good call.
We wanted to depict the Bored Apes vs. Meebits war so I drew the Ape owned by our crewmate AlexxShadow (surprise for him in the morning). I wanted to be sure no one will come later and claim his rights for using his ape. Better safe than sorry ya know!
His pig Meebit opponent was borrowed from Redlions possession, same as his precious five-traiter punk #1968 who is mischievously observing this tense situation.
I knew I had to fill the canvas with other NFTs, so as I was exploring our wallets I realized it would be nice to feature our friend Jonathan Mann aka 'Song a Day Man', and his NFT project. The art for the thumbnails of his batch of 1st year songs was been done by @Defacedstudio.
And here comes my own Goblin - a claymation NFT project we love as well by Gossip Goblin. We featured Goblins in issue #35, including Artdrop of our own Goblinized mascot Bahdoon.
We enter the final straight down Bonsai alley, riding on a digital horse! These are referencing two interesting NFT projects with utility features: ZENFT - procedurally generated 3D bonsai trees and ZED RUN - an NFT horse racing game.
Stay tuned!
