Cassette tape cover and J-card artwork for Stormkeep’s “Lost Relics” dungeon synth album. Recorded in 2021 for a “Tales of Othertime” bonus CD, the tape version was released in May 2023 via Ván Records.
©2023
Western-style Saddle with details of Appalachian wildlife, flora & fauna. llustration (and typography) for Saddle of Southern Darkness from Louisville, KY.
In the leather-stamping on the various saddle parts can be seen the following imagery:
- Seat jockey: Cottonmouth snake among blackberry vines.
- Back housing and skirt: More flowering blackberries and thistle.
- Cantle: Oak leaves and acorns.
- Fender: Cardinals and Goldenrod (State bird and flower, respectively, of Kentucky).
©2024 by Gabriel Danilchik; hand-drawn on a tablet in Procreate and finalized with Photoshop. Typography edited using Illustrator and Photoshop.
Merch design for Wayfarer with masked Pinkerton agents (looking like "Django Kill" henchmen) posing the corpse of the American Dream.
Logo typography by Aaron Horkey.
©2024 by Gabriel Danilchik. Hand-drawn with Procreate, edited in Photoshop.
Merch design for Savage Oath from their song of the same title, to promote their 2024 EP, Divine Battle.
The song and the image here relate parts of the brutal story of Olga of Kiev.
©2024
Horrors in the abyssal depths of the ocean… Guitar Pedal design for Black Harbor Sound.
©2023
T-shirt design for SLC heavy metal band Blood Star, “Cold Moon” is a song from their 2023 debut full-length album First Sighting.
Merch design for Savage Oath of their song of the same title, to promote their 2024 EP, Divine Battle.
Shown in this illustration is a human blood sacrifice on a mysterious altar of standing stones, below the constellations of Orion and Aries.
©2024
Merch design for Eternal Champion, featuring a pair of musclebound warriors atop a ravenous wyrm.
Illustration ©2023
EC logo by Dan Capp.
Merch design for Eternal Champion, showing a tangled chain of barbaric warriors of all kinds, climbing over one another and fighting with a monstrous winged ape and some sort of wyvern creature.
“Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.”
— Robert E. Howard
Illustration ©2023
EC logo by Dan Capp.
T-shirt design to go with the release of Wayfarer’s 2023 album release, “American Gothic.”
Lettering/typography by Shane McCarthy.
©2023
Commissioned illustration in a Dürer-esque woodcut style.
©2023
A party of adventurers faces the Star, one of the Shade Entities encroaching on the Forgotten Realms in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign by Isaac Davies, who commissioned this piece.
Hand-drawn using Procreate.
©2023
Poster/T-shirt artwork for Wayfarer for their Spring 2023 concert tour of Europe.
©2023
Insert map for Stormkeep’s 2021 debut full-length album “Tales of Othertime,” laying out the geography of the mythic realm of Elda.
©2021
T-shirt design for Boise-based synthwave band Magic Sword.
Featured from left to right are the entities known as the Weaver, the Keeper, and the Seer.
©2022
Album artwork for ARÐ’s debut album “Take Up My Bones” (February 2022), showing the monks bearing the coffin of St. Cuthbert from its initial resting place at Lindisfarne to the famous cave where they hid it from Viking invaders.
Artwork completed at the end of 2020.
From their Bandcamp page:
“ ARÐ are of Northumbria. The band’s name is taken from an Old English word meaning ‘native land’ in the dialect of the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria. The concept behind the debut album ‘Take Up My Bones’ from this insular doom metal solo project created by composer and musician Mark Deeks revolves around the legendary relics of the famous Northumbrian saint Cuthbert (634–687) and their long journey. ARÐ built their artistic quest for heritage and identity upon a solid doom foundation. The early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria that inspired ARÐ was far larger than the historic English county Northumberland implies. Before the Germanic warriors arrived, at first as a part of the Roman armies and later as conquerors, the Romans had subjugated the local population of Brittonic Votadini, speakers of a Celtic language. The Roman Empire had left a religious legacy that firmly took root in neighbouring Ireland and soon began to affect the new Germanic rulers of these northern lands as well as ultimately inspiring the tale of ‘Take Up My Bones’: Christianity. The early medieval coastal monasteries of Whithorn in the west and Lindisfarne to the east bear witness to this transition. It is in Lindisfarne on Holy Island in the time after the devastating Viking attack from across the sea in the year 793 where the story of the remains of St. Cuthbert begins: a 200-year journey that saw the saint's remains finally reburied in the cathedral of Durham. The legends and mystery of the translation of the saint's relics such as the refusal of his coffin to be moved or the lack of corruption upon his corpse after decades shape the core of this conceptual musical tale. With crushing glacial-paced doom, monastic sounding chants and choirs, and sorrowful yet epic melodies, ARÐ have found the perfect musical expression to tell a tale of their homelands. “
©2020
Official festival artwork for Crucialfest 2023 (Salt Lake City), depicting a ruined temple of some ancient Saurian gods, long after humanity has disappeared and dinosaurs have reclaimed the Earth.
©2023
An arboreal inferno.
T-shirt design for Eugene, Oregon-based death metal band Inherited Extinction, calling to the viewer’s mind the planet’s rising temperatures and the ever-more-frequent wildfires ravaging the landscape; a self-induced Armageddon.
©2022
Poster artwork for Wayfarer performances in Denver, CO and Brooklyn, NY in March 2022, showcasing their October 2020 album release, A Romance With Violence.
A 3-color screen-printed poster version of this artwork is available for purchase in the shop.
A white long-sleeved shirt variation, specific to Wayfarer’s “Vaudeville,” can be bought from EvilGreed (Europe) or from Inferno Screen Printing (US).
©2021
Basilosaurus (meaning “King Lizard”) was a vast prehistoric ancestor of modern whales, measuring over 60 feet in length and weighing perhaps 15 tons. They lived between 41.3 and 33.9 million years ago.
Merch art for Crucialfest 2023.
T-shirt design for Denver’s mountain-western black metal band Wayfarer, for the song “The Crimson Rider” from their 2020 album release A Romance With Violence.
Wayfarer logo by Adam Gersh.
In the US this shirt can be ordered from Inferno Screen Printing.
In Europe the shirt is available from EvilGreed.
Skateboard deck design for Rezolution Skateboards, showing the Basket Lady of Ute legend who snatches naughty children at night and puts them in her basket so as to eat them.
©2023
Personal commission, 2021.
Drawn by hand using Procreate and Photoshop.
An ouroboros of dinosaurs… Utahraptors, to be specific; with and without a coat of feathers.
Logo art for Crucialfest 2022.
A stylized Valkyrie comes to awaken the slain in this coffee label, illustrated and designed for Watchtower Coffee & Comics in Salt Lake City, UT.
Note the halftone closeup, a concept for potential T-shirt printing.
2021.
Jacob Marley and other ghosts terrorize Ebenezer Scrooge in this Harry Clarke-inspired take on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Artwork for Crucialfest’s 2022 “Crooshmas” concert.
Album cover artwork for SLC-based progressive metal band SINDAR. Their Tolkien-inspired album “Splintered Light” can be heard on their Bandcamp site.
The stark black-and-white art style of this piece was inspired in a large part from the pixel artwork of late 1980’s Macintosh computer games, such as the dungeon-delving platform scrollers Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle.
Tattoo design commission, 2022.
A retro poster design for Seattle-based rock ‘n roll duo Pink Boa, this was heavily inspired by the art of Patrick Nagel and other 1980s art deco.
2022.
Cultists engaging in a grisly sacrifice, somewhere in Utah.
T-shirt art for Crucialfest’s 2021 Halloween concert series.
Album cover illustration for Culver Jones.
2022.
Personal commission, commemorating the events of a destination wedding, 2022.
Drawn by hand using Photoshop.
Oregon Trail meets Dinotopia in this poster art for the “CrucialTrek” series of Crucialfest-sponsored concerts in Utah in 2022.
T-shirt commission for Seattle rock duo Pink Boa.
Hand drawn using Photoshop, in multiple color schemes.
(“Pink Boa” band logo by a different artist.)
2022
Skateboard design for Rezolution Skateboards.
This image shows the moment of clarity and dawning horror at the implications of his actions, when Coyote impulsively frees humanity onto the Earth.
2021.
Guitar Pedal artwork commission for Black Harbor Sound.
2021.
Merch art for Crucialfest’s “Crooshmas” 2021.
A victorious Ute warrior, based on Iron Maiden’s “The Trooper,” with a bloodied Uncle Sam retreating in the background. Designed for Rezolution Skateboards in 2019.
Full-color and simplified 4-color variations shown here.
This design is an homage to the infamous Skinwalker Ranch, a property near Fort Duchesne, Utah and the Uintah and Ouray tribal reservation, known for decades for the numerous sightings of cryptids, UFOs, paranormal activity, and native legends come to life. Giant wolves, floating orbs, inexplicable cattle mutilations, flying saucers, and ghostly apparitions are just a few of the unexplained phenomena that have been reported in the area in just the past century alone.
A Skinwalker is a figure from Uintah, Ouray, and Navajo (among others’) oral tradition who, by wearing the skin of certain animals, can shape-shift into that animal's form. They are usually depicted as a witch-like antithesis of a healer or shaman, more often considered evil practitioners of dark magic and rituals, having become possessed by an evil spirit through some unspeakable act such as the killing of a family member.
The T-shirts are discharge-printed white ink on black 100% cotton T-shirts, which can be purchased on the Archangel Impressions Etsy shop.
This was a commission for a friends’ wedding anniversary, featuring the two of them in animal form as well as their cats, having a campfire and casting spells during a cosmic quest.
2021.
Banjo-bot hiking to his doom, a robot cow skull, and a shy dragon.
Album cover and insert artwork for SLC folk band Folk Hogan’s 2019 release, “Behold.”
2019
Logo for Shearie McShearie’s traveling sheep, llama & alpaca wool-shearing company.
2019
Tolkien-inspired T-shirt design for SLC progressive metal band Naeramarth, depicting the creation of the Valacirca constellation (The Sickle of the Valar, ie the Big Dipper) at the hands of Varda Elentári, as described in The Silmarillion.
2019
Naeramarth band logo typography by Dan Capp
T-shirt artwork and logo typography for Eugene, Oregon heavy metal band Pendraig, in two different color schemes.
2019
Skateboard deck design for Rezolution Skateboards, featuring a Ute and Navajo legend.
2019
T-shirt design and logo typography for Colorado killbillies Saddle of Southern Darkness accompanying their 2019 tour and album release, “The Feral Few.”
Shown here are a tobacco axe and harvest spikes, along with tobacco leaves and an arrangement of deer bones, straight from the Killbilly Saloon.
2019
Cover illustration for the “Film in Utah” issue of SLUG Magazine [Salt Lake Underground] for January 2019.
Skateboard deck design for Rezolution Skateboards, depicting the Ute legend of the Deer Woman, a seductive shapeshifting spirit who would lure lecherous men into the woods and tear them apart.
2018
Snowboard artwork for Niche Snowboards’ 2020 line, with a scene of Valkyries descending to a battlefield and resurrecting the valiant slain as Einherjar.
2019
Roman legions destroying modernity.
LP cover (front and back) for a Utah black metal band.
2018
Rendition of a scene from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas. Commission for an ongoing book illustration project.
2018
T-shirt and flyer artwork for SLC power metal band Visigoth for their October 2016 US West Coast tour, “Warstorms Over Western Shores.”
2016
Visigoth logo typography by Dan Capp
T-shirt design for SLC heavy metal band Blood Star, featuring their cat Shermin, based on Motörhead’s Snaggletooth mascot.
2018
EP cover and T-shirt artwork for SLC heavy metal band Blood Star.
2018
Blood Star logo typography by Dan Capp
“Electric Warfare” T-shirt artwork for Portland heavy metal band Silver Talon.
2018
Silver Talon logo typography by Dan Capp
Album cover and T-shirt design for SLC thrash metal band Necrowolf.
2018
T-shirt design commission for Portland street-doom-thrash band R.I.P.
2018
Band logo design commission.
2018
T-shirt design for SLC power metal band Visigoth, accompanying the release of their 2018 album Conqueror’s Oath.
Shown here in various color schemes.
2018
Visigoth logo typography by Dan Capp
Poster commission for Wholesun Wellness, hosting the Utah Fungi Festival.
2018
Season T-shirt design for the SLC Heavy Metal Bowling League.
2017
T-shirt artwork for SLC black metal band Fiendlord.
2017
T-shirt artwork for Olympia death metal band Bone Sickness.
2014
Logo for video production company Vortex Video.
2017
Logo typography for video production company Nightspeed Productions.
2019
Cultists engaging in a dark ritual of pizza summoning.
Pizza box artwork submission for Sizzle Pie Pizza in Portland, Oregon.
2017
T-shirt artwork for Portland progressive metal band Increate.
2016
T-shirt design for SLC thrash metal band Deathblow, adapted from Andreas Marschall’s album artwork on their LP “The Other Side of Darkness.”
2016
Deathblow band logo typography by Dan Capp.
Logogram for SLC black metal project Noob Saibot.
2016
Logo for Detroit-based acupuncturist & herbalist Jason Garuder.
2015
“SerPINtine PINtagram” T-shirt design for the SLC Heavy Metal Bowling League’s second season.
2015
Artwork for Portland rock-n-roll band Time Rift.
2015
Time Rift typography by Justin Kaye.
Banner design for Wolf Crow Medicine.
2014
“Demon Bowler” T-shirt design for the Portland Metal Bowling League.
2014
