So I have never really done any fan art but got very excited at the chance to do some for this brief.
Two films both came to mind and that was Paul And Mars Attacks both are comedy alien films which was good, but I decided on Mars Attacks as it's one of my favorite film. So I sat down and put on the film and did a few quick drawings of the aliens and tryed to find a side of them i was happy to draw.
I then scanned in these images i played around editing and seeing if i could still use photoshop as it's been a while.
Just adding colour and moving the levels and contrast to strengthen the outline.
Using the color pallet that has been selected has given me a problem or two as iv not really had to use one before as it's the first time iv taken on a breif with the colour set.
I like the faces angle of the rough that i have not added colour to in the first set of images. So taking a bit more care and time i drew a new alien head and rough body to see iv i was able to draw it bigger for the final poster. I was very happy with how this came out i decided id use it to mock up a poster design.
Using pencil first to rough out the outline, then going over the pencil with pen also using the pen to build up areas of shade to give the image contrast. Then just scanned it in at 300dpi and opened it in photoshop.
I need to add some of the other elements to the poster like the title and a few more details to build up the image. So I drew out the MARS ATTACKS in the same way as the aliens head then using photo shop i added the colour and different borders and outlines to make it appear the same as the original text from the film.
Some UFOs
Only used one in my first mock up and tryed to get it to interact with the text on the poster.
Here is my first mock up for the poter to see how the different parts come together, they is still plenty more to do on this but i first want to print this out at the size required to see how it looks.
More colour, UFOs, detail in the text and some stars to try finish the image off.
Reflection
I was happy with how my final image came out, but like always i could of definitely improved on the final image. One idea i had played around with at the end of making the poster was adding i image of the earth behind the alien in the distance, but at the last moment decided to leave it out as i felt i was rushing it and could of ruined the poster. Also the space suit could of done with some more shading and detail as it seems very plain and unfinished attached to the head with has plenty of detail and depth.
I have since been down to Traveling Man to see if they had finished using them and was told i had sold one and that they liked the posters been up in the shop so are willing to keep them up and continue to sell them for us.
Presentaion board s
