Il Buono Il Cattivo Il Brutto

So here we are with yet another western movie poster starring Clint Eastwood. This time it is the one and only "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". This piece underwent much frustration and many changes. At the very least it turned out better than my last poster, so I guess I should be pleased.

This was actually a revision of the final turned in piece. Here is the original, that had much more red in it like some of the posters of the Dollars-trilogy had.

But my teacher sad the colours sucked, so that's why I redid the colours. However, that was the last step of many frustrations regarding the piece. Here are many of the steps that this piece underwent. First up is the thumbnail/concept stage.

However, the lack of enthusiasm for the sketches, prompted me to try to come up with something better.

However, aside from the nice touches with the flags and good likenesses, the critique was "pretty fuckin' boring", so back to the drawing board. Less than a week before the deadline. Add in two tests (in in biotechnology, yikes) and I was in for a stressful week. Not to mention the other homework I had to do. However, I got crackin', redrew a more pimped up version of the sketch.

So all in all, considering the time I had on the actual piece and the amount of frustration in my life at the time, it did turn out okay.

A Fistful of Dollars

Here's a movie poster I did. It wasn't originally a movie poster, but turned out that way. This piece went through a lot of stages and ended up okay. I wish it was better, but hey, could be worse.

First off, it wasn't a western piece at all. I had ideas for many things, but eventually ended up with the western thing as it was the one that had the most response/least dislikes. But anyways, here are the first concepts:

 However, the teacher was not very pleased with the pose of my gunslinger, so I changed it up to this:

I liked it so, it was off to make the line drawing, however getting proper reference for this pose would prove to be a challenge.

So, the result was that the pencil drawing lost whatever the sketch had, and I was back to square one. Something had to be done. It was time to do a vignette, like my teacher wanted us to do in the first place.

The result ended up being okay. I put Eastwood's face in there and made it an actual movie poster, as opposed to a made up film I initially planned to do, as people thought it was Eastwood in the first place. I actually liked the line drawing more than the finished piece (with the flat and graphic colours), which has prompted me to rethink how I approach the final art. Some of that could be seen in my previous post. That piece was made after this. Lines might play a bigger role in the future I think.