Last week brought a lot of drama and spicy beefs between influencers, some controversial drops, and plenty of instant 'sold-outs' occurred. However the most important and very sad news this week was the death of our beloved crazy gringo, John McAfee. We knew the moment the news hit us with such impact that this weeks cover art was going to be dedicated to him.
To understand the analogy Red came up with, you gotta know what Loki - a television series - is all about. Honestly, I was a Loki virgin before the cover creation but Red was singing odes to it all the time and so for the cover research purpose I had to watch it. Well, now I am hooked AF and watching all the episodes for a second time lol.
Let's introduce you to the series premise: After stealing the Tesseract during the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority (TVA), a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a "time variant", or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat.- Wikipedia
You definitely must watch it if you haven't already! So here we are telling our own alternative story, one where John is not dead! Instead, he has meerly jumped through time and space, to fight a greater threat in another time and place. There's long rumored "dead man triggers" McAfee spoke of, we are very curious just what might materialise there!
A very tiny detail, the Ethereum symbol, is used for the logo badge alternation to convey John's deep crypto dedication, enthusiasm, and continual preaching efforts.
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From the creation point of view, I went with a rougher, more expressive mixed media digital painting using Procreate which – as always – opens the opportunity to watch the full process. In the end, you can spot the depth mask creation for the pseudo 3d rotation effect made in After Effects with other lightning and coloring postproduction.
Dedicated to John McAfeee.
RIP.
