OK guys, let's rock! With the first major mainstream band hitting the NFT space we wanted to contribute to this milestone. Took me quite some time to come up with a solid idea, but I knew from the start the headliner item may be KOL's iconic cherry logo. 

I drew this sketch on Saturday evening after some lengthy research on the band's background and imagery while listening to their newly released album. My GF was even more stoked than me about this new cover. She truly loves Kings of Leon, so it only seemed fitting that she take over Red's role of back-seater for this week.

This image is depicting the iconic cherry in gold on red background (the same is used on bands art NFT btw). It also shows it opening to reveal a hidden vinyl record inside with a miniature band spinning around the ETH symbol.

The trickiest part of assembling the 3D model was finding suitable assets to represent the band. Obviously, there was no time to custom model each band member, so I used ready-made models and transplanted some heads onto a bald-headed bass guitarist.

What I figured to be a simple matter of getting the LP label in reasonable quality, to create the desired texture, is where I ran into some trouble. On all promo images, the label is cut on the left side, so I had to search the social networks for "brag" & "unboxing" posts to find an image to pull the label from in Photoshop.

The final touch in post-production was a bit of toning being added with After Effects. Primarily to give it a more retro-analog feeling. I am very happy with how this piece turned out in the end. I sure hope you all like it too!