Character design
The Ghost Behind the Curtain
A ghost for a folk album about a seaside town that won’t let its ghosts go.
Client
Marrowgate Records
Year
2025
Medium
Colour woodblock print
The project
The brief
Marrowgate wanted one image to carry the album: the cover, the tour poster and a tiny enamel pin. It had to be properly unsettling, the kind of face you still see after the lights go out.
How it was made
I drew forty small ghosts in a week and took the three that made the band go quiet to full roughs. We kept the curtain and the hands, and lost everything else.
The result
The ghost became the record’s cover and its tour poster, and it runs as a projection behind the band at every show.
Sample image: Katsushika Hokusai, Kohada Koheiji, from One Hundred Ghost Stories, 1831–32. Public domain, Art Institute of Chicago.
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