1 July 2016
Poster I did for Garth Manor Cinema , wanted to do something that really pops so I chose to go with a sort of comic book style illustration
Here are the original rough layouts
Then the revised layout of the chosen composition .
The final artwork:
Visit them here : www.garthmanorcinema.com/
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13 April 2016
So now I can show the poster artwork I did for Frankenstein created Bikers
My goal with the poster was to capture the action and excitement like the old 80’s VHS action video covers.
Info on the movie can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/frankensteincreatedbikers/
So here is the first comps I did for the poster layout , I kept them small so i could concentrate on layout and prevent myself from getting stuck on details.
Once the preferred layout was chosen I then produced a rough revised comp/layout
Then the process started of detail work , I did a complete black and white tonal value painting first, this way I could make sure the elements on the image popped the way I wanted them too:
Final colour version with text and with out text , I also added allot of looser bold brush strokes to create the sense of action and movement, this is something new to me as my work is normally very stiff and static.
Finally a massive thanks to James Bickert for letting me work on this awesome project
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5 February 2016
This was my second poster I was working up for the cancelled custom culture art show.
Tags: art, custom, poster, rene bond
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31 August 2015
Here is a little sneak peek of a poster I am working on for the French metal band Banane Métalik
For some audio goodness get their latest LP here:
http://www.bananemetalik.com/preorder.html
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27 June 2015
Been a while since my last update , reason is I had a hard drive fail and a bunch of work that I wanted to share online is gone now. But saying that its time for some new goodies so here we go:
This poster was designed for a coming feature created by Josh Collins the director, known for Pervirella (1997) and Dante’s Cove (2005). It was a blast doing this poster , big thanks to Josh.
These were the proposed thumbs , after I had read the synopsis for the film a pretty solid idea for the composition pop into my head that I wanted to play with.
After a couple of tweaks it was onto drawing up the detailed pencil version of the artwork , I drew the final piece on tracing paper , the reason for this each element was drawn separately so that if I needed to move elements around in Photoshop to further balance the composition I could do that.
Final digitally coloured version, I also could not resist doing a worn out version.
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10 November 2014
Just wanted to do this for some time now
Here is the development sketches I did:
The very first rough idea :
I scanned that in and cleaned up the sketch , by redrawing it digitally. I also played around with adding text in the back ground.
I then printed this out and did a rough pencil sketch adding my additional details:
I still was not sold on the text , problem was that the artwork was covering allot of the text and I was concerned that it would not be readable. So in the final artwork I figured to go for a more traditional comic book layout.
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4 August 2014
Did this poster to promote the 15th annual drive-Invasion. if you are in the area go check it out , live bands , food etc and of course The Mad Doctor of Blood Island on the big screen projected from the original prints , that is totally BAD-ASS AWESOMENESS.
More info here:
http://www.drive-invasion.com/
https://www.facebook.com/driveinvasion
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28 January 2014
So this is the final artwork , ready to go to be silkscreen.
This is the stages to creating the artwork.
Pencil art
Pencil art is scanned into photoshop the blue lines removed by doing level adjustments , I then also add my additional text and make sure the image remains balanced and nothing is out of place.
First pass colour work , this is done mainly as flat colors, I drew inspiration from old comic books for their vibrant use of colour, I wanted this poster to pop. After I had got all the basic colour work in and was satisfied I then duplicated my original cleaned up pencil art and added it as a multiply layer to darken the lines and to bring the image back to looking like a panel from a comic book.
Then last bit of work was straight forward coloring and final adjustments. JOB DONE!
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28 January 2014
This is how I created the logo on the jungle girl poster. I roughly sketched/traced it onto tracing paper and using pigment pens and ink and brush I created the logo. I scanned it in separate and combined the logo and the final pencil artwork in photoshop , then proceeded to do all the colour work.
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2 April 2013
So normally there would be a few posts as I develop and complete a poster project , but deadlines and a few changes meant I had to put this one into hyper drive and get it done in time.
So here it is the final poster for the slasher film PinUp dolls on Ice. Thanks again to Geoff Klein for having me work on this project.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2235876/
Tags: Corlen Kruger, Geoff Klein, Pinup dolls on ice, Poster Art
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