I think it was recorded really recently, in the past couple of weeks. Have you heard any of the music coming on Igor? Photographer, Luis Perez, may have had a hand in the other cover. I think he’s going to use it for the vinyl and a couple other marketing things. Every album he’s done has two covers, one by him and another by an artist. Yeah, this will be one of the vinyl covers. Is your cover going to be on the vinyl edition? His rapping isn’t like typical hip-hop music. There’s always been something about his music that speaks to the creative part of me. He was really accessible: I could text him and he would hit me back immediately. It was nice to work with someone who really understands art. I would bounce ideas off of him, and he would give me his input too. I don’t know what the meaning of Igor is, but if you look into the jacket he’s wearing in the piece, the top left actually has some of his handwriting that he sent me and I worked it in. That five percent is actually Tyler. It didn’t have “Igor” written on it until the last minute, when he told me that was going to be the name of the album. I went back-and-forth on what he would want in it. He sent me a picture of him wearing this blond wig, sunglasses, a suit, and gold teeth. Tyler specifically gave me pictures of him to work from. Where did the inspiration for the illustration come from? Maybe that’s why he wanted it to be an album cover because it was already a square and worked well for it. I was really glad I worked in a square format. I didn’t know the album was coming out so soon. Just three days ago - literally three days ago - he said, “I know I said it was going to be for an art, but I think I’d rather use it for my album.” I didn’t even know I was doing the album cover until three days ago. I sent him a couple different versions and it snowballed from there. I kind of stopped everything I was doing and started working on it for a few days. A couple days later, he asked if I had started it yet. He said he was thinking about doing an art project and wanted a portrait of him. Three weeks ago, he called me on FaceTime.
I didn’t know if anything would come of it. From there, we talked and he wanted me to do work for me, but he wasn’t very specific. I responded as soon as I saw the message. I was getting quite a few messages every day, so I actually didn’t even see it at first. It was probably six months ago when I got an Instagram message from Tyler.
I usually don’t do a lot of commission work. This project for Tyler came out of the blue. A couple of years ago, I realized doing my own personal work was much more calming than meeting deadlines for other people. The reason I like to draw is because I have Tourette’s Syndrome. Lewis Rossignol: I went to school for illustration a few years ago. Billboard: What is your background as an artist?
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