Making the Devil's Playhouse Soundtrack cover with Steve Purcell
Over on The Sam & Max Funhouse page, Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell shared a little bit of behind-the-scenes process on his new cover illustration for the Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse soundtrack. We thought you might like it so we've reproduced the post and images here!
In Lisbon last fall I snapped a worn poster pasted to a wall cause the blue on pink spoke to me. I noodled a sketch to that effect in Procreate. Tried green for the background instead of pink. Drew the line art in croquill and ink knowing I planned to digitally color instead of paint. The little box of text in the corner was always meant to look hand lettered.
With a logo and text assist by Jake Rodkin and some texturing applied, here’s what we wound up with…
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3652710/Sam__Max_The_Devils_Playhouse_Soundtrack/
We hope you've been enjoying the soundtrack! Just a reminder, the 10% off launch deal ends tomorrow. If you're looking for more ways to listen, it's also made its way to Bandcamp, and should start appearing on Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music and more in the coming weeks.