Movie Poster Designs

Full Size pay off with a half inch boarder, 27x40 @300 dpi

Okay, so as most of you know I've been working as a Jr.-Designer at Indika Entertainment Advertising for the past few months making movie posters. Since then I've really fallen more in love with that art and design.


This year I decided that ontop of my illustration work I want to persue a more free-lancey sorta exploration in graphic design making movie posters for my friends thesis films. Now, although this first poster I'm posting about is not a thesis film, its for a friends Documentary about his father's life and his relationship with his father. My friend, (Kyle Mumford) really worked hard on this movie and I'm looking forward to working with him again in the future. The film is very deep and has a very serious tone to it so we wanted to try to obtain that sense of emotion in the direction of the poster design. As you can see ontop is the finished payoff poster. I'm also sharing all of first and second round comps that I worked on for him before we ended up going with the final. Lemme know watchu think!



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The last two weeks I've been failing at life

Okay, so I think I'm finally coming out of the hole I fell into the past two-three weeks. I've been really over worked with a ton of crap and now I am trying to prioritize shit. In the mean time, I wanted to make a post to some images that I said I wouldn't post because I was really un-happy with them, but you can't appreciate sunny days without some rainy ones.



This image is the second project that was created for my Portfolio class with Tomer, the direction was to pick a significant character/person real or fictitious and illustrate a portrait of them. The catch was that the portrait had to give a "feeling" or a general idea of what that person did in their life. (or of who they were) SO I chose Jay Adams, one of the original Z-Boys from Dogtown. I'll spare you the info but nut shelling it, he played a very significant role in the evolution of modern day vert-skateboarding. He lead a very rough childhood and basically I view him as a very passionate athlete who never sold out when everyone else did around him. But he did kinda washed up with going to prison BUT thats a different story. Anyway, the Jay Adams persona has been one that I look up to with longboarding and freeboarding since I was a kid.

The image I did the final on was a bit different from my initial sketch which I am going to do a re-worked version based on as soon as I can, but basically I wanted to focus on the surfing aspect of Jay's earlier life. I was working with using the water and the waves of the ocean and integrate that with his long blonde hair/and the Venice boardwalk that was a very symbolic location in Jay's life. If you've ever seen the movie "Lords of Dog-Town" or the documentary you'd see the connections. Anyway, I chose to do this image in a slightly different approach than my usual illustrations. I went with graphite and charcoal instead of ink. And I tried to get more of a painterly feel with my digital coloring. I did an ink wash for the waves and put them behind my coloring. Then laid the graphite drawing ontop and blah blah blah. Tomer said that the waves needed to be bigger and more aggressive and that they weren't selling the image. :/ I'm in the midst of re-working it though so we'll see how that one turns out.

The Saddest Duck to have ever lived.

So, I was really bored earlier and decided, "Hey, I'm gunna draw a duck." so I did, except he came out looking ridiculously sad, so I decided to keep him. blah blah um, soon I'm gunna do a new blog update where I'm changing my layout up and adding some new pages to this old lady. Should be good. Maybe in a day or two. ROARRR also check out www.illustration-gumbo.blogspot.com where only the coolest kids get to show. <3

VASA HALLOWEEN POSTER

9x12 Ink on Bistol scanned at 600dpi for final

So its that time of the year again. Friday the 13th and Tales from the Crypt re-runs flying out my nose and prepping my windowsill for a few tiny pumpkin carvings. HALLLLOOOWEEENNN!!!

And that could also mean another thing; SVA's yearly Halloween Party, where all of our well spent tuition money finds its rightful home. Actually I take that back, usually the Halloween Party is a fun time NVM NVM anyway, yeah fucking , this year the first place for the costume contest gets a MACBOOK AIR. what? Why in the hell would anyone want to bother with a macbook air unless their traveling 4days a week and need to fit their laptop into an 9x12 envelope. GG VASA wtf happened to the sweet macbook pro first place loot we shelled out last year? Blah.

27x40 300 dpi photoshop coloring final

Anyway, it'll be a fun time. If you go to SVA go get your tickets now their on sale at the VASA office in the mez of the George Washington Residence. its 7bucks but its well worth the free food and all you can drink soda. Thank god only half the Cartooning majors have ADD and ADHD, or we'd all be in for a hell of a night BOOBS Anyway, finally VASA let me do the poster design for this event. Last year my good amazonian friend Amma swiped it from me, BUT I PREVAIL THIS YEAR!

Okay, time to get started on my illustration thats due for Tomer's class at 3pm. FML Also, check out my friend Johnny's blog, I got some inspiration for the tentacles on this poster design from some of his recent work.

ALSO, idk why but my blog keeps defaulting to Times NewRoman and the "small" setting on the font so I apologize if this shit is hard to read, idk how to fix it right now

Moocher

Moocher
5x8 watercolor and gouache /ink on paper
$10.00

heres a close up for detail, my fucking scanner is retarded and still wont scan the neon colors, it turns them all flat and desaturated, idk why so the first image is a digital shot, closest to the actual color, second is the poopy one.

Okay, so heres yet another splatter monster I just finished. His name is Moocher, and he loves licking the grease off people's foreheads. At night he stares at himself in the mirror and just whispers to himself and tries to decide whether or not the reoccurring dream of his 8th birthday party when his local priest molested him behind his fathers shed in the backyard is actually a dream or not. I think his dad was a priest but I can't remember. Anyway, heres also a little progress picture thats sorta retarded but yeah of what I do with these since a few people have emailed me about what goes on.


Basically this past summer I tore apart a really nice watercolor paper Moleskin and wanted to do a series of splatter monster drawings with ink. I basically just took random colors of these acrylic gouache and did really thin washes with big brush strokes on each page, and then I use a micron pen and just make a goofy looking monster depending on how I look at the splatter. So yeah all of these are pretty much just random blobs of stuff that I kinda make into monsters. OKAY BYE I NEED SLEEP AND LOVE FROM MY PILLOWSSZZZ THAT I SPOONZ blah