Tundra Toucan — Gerrit Rijken
Logos and artwork for black, death & extreme metal
Every logo is drawn by hand, then finished digitally in Clip Studio Paint — some built on 3D reference models I sculpt in Blender.
Logos
Pick your poison
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Album art & merch
Covers · Shirts · Posters
I.Sketched by handEvery logo starts on paper: letterforms, spikes and symmetry worked out by hand.
II.Built in 3DFor the complex pieces, custom reference models in Blender get the anatomy and perspective right.
III.Finished digitallyInked and cleaned up in Clip Studio Paint, delivered print-ready for shirts, patches and covers.
The science of logos
Illegible on purpose
I co-authored Illegible Semantics: Exploring the Design Space of Metal Logos, accepted at the alt.VIS workshop at IEEE VIS 2021. It's about how metal logos tell a story, even when you can't read them.
The companion genre guide breaks down the visual codes of each subgenre through 50 sample logos, from war metal to funeral doom.