Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Matthew McConaughey in A Time to Chill


Here's a cover and a bunch of interior illustrations I did with my friends at the Dallas Observer a couple weeks ago. The pieces were all a part of their Dallas International Film Festival guide and mostly featured a local mostly shirtless hero. Here's some making-of stuff.
Ideas for cover:
Cover thumbnails:


Rough pencil drawing:

Traced into vectors in Illustrator:

Output at 150% (on to 2 sheets of paper, tiled), then drawn on top of:

Lineart lightboxed and inked on another sheet:

Everything added together:
Addt'l fun stuff for the inside of the paper. Paper doll sketch:

Final art:

3 Visual Guides:


BINGO card:


Some ref. I collected along the way:

1 comment:

Jamie McCarthy said...

This is great! Very funny!