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The Game Ain't the Same

"People with no voices, with no choices, only stress.
The situation we are placed in, is Hell, at its best."

The above were lyrics to a song entitled The Game Ain't The Same from my old band called Elements DEC that I sang for in the 90's. I had done a series of illustrations for every 2 lines of lyrics from the songs as a project in college. Ultimately it was this illustration that was used as the "cover" image for the song itself. The original was different. On the right hand side it was not demons in the original. Just people that looked the same as the figure on the left. I decided to update it accordingly.
The original illustration was done around 1995. I no longer had the original drawing / painting, just a low res .jpg file as reference. I decided as a good exercise I could recreate it digitally. I also have not used Adobe Fresco all that much yet even though it is meant to eventually replace Adobe Draw, so I also saw it is an opportunity to get familiar with it.
I created the initial black and white line drawing in Adobe Draw and then opened that file from my Cloud Documents in Adobe Fresco. I completed the color in Fresco using the live oil brushes along with tightening up the line drawing some. 
The Game Ain't the Same
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The Game Ain't the Same

Recreation of my old bands album cover from over 20 years ago. Redone using Adobe Illustrator Draw for the black and white line art and Adobe Fre Read More

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