Pendulum Immersion Album Cover

This is the album cover for Pendulum's newest album "Immersion", the electronic rock bands new album is themed around water. The album features tracks such as Watercolour, Under The Waves, and The Fountain. The band wanted to create a mysterious underwater scenario for their album cover and booklet. This underwater theme is carried out through the album cover, in the middle there is a naked man and woman, we can see the water surface at the top of the cover and there is light shining through onto the man and woman. On each side of the man and woman there are other people swimming towards them, some almost look like mermaids. Along the bottom and up the sides we can see strange creatures, corals and other sea life you would see on the bottom of the ocean. The artist who designed this cover wanted to include complex artwork with very high attention to detail, a lot of hand-drawn lines, electric bolts, water bubbles and lightning effects. I think the artist achieved what he wanted to create very well. I found an interview with the artist on the Internet and he said this is how he went about creating the cover, "I used a lot of additional photography. The first thing was to get the proper mood - colours, sun rays, water reflects and such. Then I started to build the composition by adding the sea bottom and stone walls, and covering them with corals. While I was doing this, I was also playing with the lights and shadows by drawing all glowing elements." He wanted to create an original, natural looking under water scenario and merge that with some creative artistic techniques and I think they did that well.