sorry if this is really obvious, but does anyone know who did the album art for 1999?

I believe it was this dude

jess555ja said:

El Debarge ?

Imago said:

jess555ja said:

whoa, i clicked on the album art thing on my itunes by accident and it showed the cover blown up. i never paid attention to the tiny illustrations before. it's so awesome/i was never aware he could draw?

I'm almost 100% positive that he draws all those "party people" that were on the NPG releases and the website a few years ago.

Se7en said:

I thought those were created by Steve Parke ? But wasn´t the original cover art for the COME album drawn by Prince ?

KoolEaze said:

I couldn't find it I wonder if he takes (sketching) requests

KoolEaze said:

mplsmike said:

No.

If you look carefully at the credits, those illustrations were done by Debbie McGuan, his costume designer.

Jestyr said:

I was talking about the web sight art "party people"

mplsmike said:

They were also Debbie McGuan's character designs and drawings.

mplsmike said:

Mike, I'm talking about the people in your avatar . . . from Exodus, the website, etc.

I don't know for sure who drew them, I just always thought it was Prince. They look very similar to the cover of 1999, which I also think he did.

Ohhh.....Im not sure who did the MPLS album art...but Parke did do some web art and the Exodus album, singles.

Se7en said:

Sorry, I apologize, I guess I need to be clearer about it. Debbie McGuan does all the drawings of people from the MPLS single through Exodus and New Powersoul up to and past the first incarnation of the NPG Music Club website. She was Prince's costume designer and those drawings are the same as many of her costume design drawings. Steve Parke did 'graphic design' for many projects but that does not include drawing those figures.

Ohh that helps

Speaking of art covers. ATWIAD has probably one of the best art covers in music history. Nobody mentioned that one. How about D&P. The hologram cover was definitely original.