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Damian K. Sheiles
A blog by Damian K Sheiles about what I do and love - art, design, music and other misadventures.
Thursday 29 May 2014
It's the time of the Preacher!
Here's the evolution of another long poster design. This time based on the Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon comic series, Preacher published by DC/Vertigo Comics. I'll keep the text to minimum and simply show roughs to character illustration to finished poster design as a sequence of images below.
UPDATE. I have since revisited this Jesse Custer, Preacher tribute. Below are the revised versions.
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Wednesday 28 May 2014
DKSid - META Progress
Tonight's blog post will be short and sweet. Last March I provided a sneak peak at DKSid, a small publication I am working on with the intention to showcase my illustrative design skills to the IDW lads at Perth Supanova this June.
Further progress has been made this week. Here's another preview of some pages.
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| META - page 1 pencil rough |
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| META - page 1 without text |
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| META - page 1 complete with text |
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| META - page 4 illustration (ink) |
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| META - page 4 without text |
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Tuesday 27 May 2014
Pop Culture, Film & Comics Amalgamate! (part 2)
Continuing from my post yesterday I now present the evolution for the Metropolis Pictures presents Superman in the City of Tomorrow poster design.
The iconic design by Schulz-Neudamm for Fritz Lang's film, Metropolis is unforgettable and served as inspiration for many artists and designers. The original design for the Star Wars character C3PO by concept artist Ralph McQuarrie was based on the android 'Maria' from the Fritz Lang film released in 1927. The city design from the film Metroplois is heavily based on Art Deco stylings of the time period and provide the perfect environment for any pulp or science fiction character to exist in.
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| Robot comparison - C3PO's (right) design was influenced by Maria (left from Metropolis |
The similarity to the world of Metropolis as portrayed in the pages of DC Comics Superman was too enticing a proposition and my curiosity to see these two universes cross-over needed to be satiated. I sketched up a handful of poster roughs for 'Metropolis' at the same time I sketched out the '30 Days of the Dark Knight' poster designs.
The images below show the evolution from pencil sketch to inks and finally to digital colour of my Steam Punk 1920's Superman. I experimented with a monochrome version rather than colour but in the end, felt that the colour version (Blue, Red and Gold) contrasted much stronger against the yellow/orange/gold city/star-burst background.
I wanted to create an Android character as well, further tying the Metropolis concept back to the Fritz Lang film. I experimented with a Brainiac design with Machiavellian mustache but decided that a battle damaged and world weary Metallo with exposed Kryponite heart would be the right Superman Villain for this design.
As the colour version of Metallo is primary gold, orange, yellow and burnt red and contrast against the yellow/orange/gold city and background would be poor, I changed the background to black, enhancing the overall design, resulting in the two 'Metropolis' prints complimenting each other in chiaroscuro fashion. Below are the inked and digitally coloured versions of Metallo.
After the completion of a graphite star-burst pattern on textured board and a technically inked city-scape, finished in Photoshop and Illustrator, I was ready to composite the poster using InDesign.
The two poster designs now complete are were completed with the addition of Title text and a custom Art Deco border drawn using Illustrator.
I hope you enjoyed seeing the design process and evolution for these poster designs. Please check back here soon for another look at art and design projects I'm currently working on. You can follow me on Facebook too if that's your thing.
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| Concept Sketching |
I knew that I wanted to design a long vertical poster so that I could feature the main character in the foreground leaving plenty of room for the city in the background and the poster title treatment above. As I wanted to pay tribute to Superman in the environment of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, the first character developed for the poster was Clark Kent's alter ego, Superman. The modern version of Superman would look out of place in this concept and time period so I looked to the Max Fleischer design from the 1940's animated series for character design inspiration. I combined this classic style with a mix of steam punk costume design embellishments to obtain the 'right' look for this amalgam of pop culture icons.
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| Max Fleischer's Superman / Clark Kent |
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| DC Comics Steam Punk Figurines |
I wanted to create an Android character as well, further tying the Metropolis concept back to the Fritz Lang film. I experimented with a Brainiac design with Machiavellian mustache but decided that a battle damaged and world weary Metallo with exposed Kryponite heart would be the right Superman Villain for this design.
As the colour version of Metallo is primary gold, orange, yellow and burnt red and contrast against the yellow/orange/gold city and background would be poor, I changed the background to black, enhancing the overall design, resulting in the two 'Metropolis' prints complimenting each other in chiaroscuro fashion. Below are the inked and digitally coloured versions of Metallo.
After the completion of a graphite star-burst pattern on textured board and a technically inked city-scape, finished in Photoshop and Illustrator, I was ready to composite the poster using InDesign.
The two poster designs now complete are were completed with the addition of Title text and a custom Art Deco border drawn using Illustrator.
Metropolis Pictures presents Superman in the City of Tomorrow
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| Superman in the City of Tomorrow |
Metropolis Pictures presents Superman in the Menace of Metallo
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| Superman in the Menace of Metallo |
I hope you enjoyed seeing the design process and evolution for these poster designs. Please check back here soon for another look at art and design projects I'm currently working on. You can follow me on Facebook too if that's your thing.
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Damian K. Sheiles
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