Battle Metal ICONS - Stage Backdrop Design

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Client: Turisas
Country: Finland
Mediums: stage backdorp, flag, T-shirt
Official release date: spring 2015
Concepts: Byzantine icons, Norse mythology, battle metal

Stage backdrop design for a battle metal band TURISAS from Finland.

The band have made songs based on Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire, Varangian Guard (Scandinavian mercenaries hired by Byzantine Emperors), and Norse mythology. And Byzantine Empire is very involved with Christianity and icons.

So this work was what I design an icons-looking backdrop totally based on the elements of the band, their songs and their requests. In other words, it's 'Turisas-style ICONS'.

P R O C E S S

Size and overlap areas information

With 3D mock-ups I set up of some types of stage for simulating

Memo of the points from the requests and the concept for the illustration

This design is made from elements of the band's style and songs themed on Byzantine Empire, Norse mythology, and etc..

Step-by-step process of drawing and painting

I made the characters' faces look like the members' ones at the band's request from the draft stage.
And after the design was printed on backdrop, gold foils were pasted in some areas of it.

Simulations with finished artwork in 3D

R E L A T E D V I D E O S

Paganfest 2015 trailer by the band: finishing (not by me) scene of the gold areas of the backdrop

Live show with the backdrop in open-air stage (Thankful for sharing by thrashdeatherreala)

Live show with the backdrop in indoor stage (Thankful for sharing by Sonidos Subterraneos)

M E R C H A N D I S E

(From a post by the multi-talented guitarist Jussi Wickström's Instagram)
The layout of the T-shirt/flag is inspired by this tour poster laid out by the band.