The Walking Dead Season 5 Poster Process

Hey All,

I thought that I would cap off all of my process videos by providing you with a breakdown of how I created this Walking Dead poster image. Up until now, I've shared a few time lapse videos but this time I will share how I got from point A to point B.

To start off with a spent a lot of time photo comping and rearranging various images trying to come up with a pleasing arrangement. I ended up setting on a nice triangular composition with that included almost all of the Hero's cast from season 5 as well a few zombie to indicate the threat and motivation in the overall narrative. You can't make a zombie movie poster without zombies in it!

I didn't keep many of these photo comps but what I do have is the initial pencil drawing. I had originally thought about putting a border around this image as a bit of a homage to some of my drew Struzan posters but in the end, my wife talked me out of it and I think that she was right.

 Next, I painted in some background color and texture. The show in general has a real saturated, green/ sepia tone to it and I wanted to start off and paint into a nice ground that conveyed that gritty, dirty, blue world.

 Here I am laying in all the local colors with an airbrush ( Photo shop) just like I would do it traditionally. The goal here is to give me an indication of the basic colors and forms and how they will interplay with one another.

 

This next image is a halfway done process shot. I've completed the rendering of about half the characters and really it is all just labor from here on out. Rick himself took me about 7-8 hours to paint. The time lapse condensed it into a nice 4 minute chunk but I ended up putting a lot of time into this piece.

 Final Image. Once all the rendering was done, I added the text and a few embellishments to the composition. I ended up making several minor adjustments in photo shop to harmonize the color scheme a bit more and "amp" up the piece in general. Photo shop really does have several "Make it Better" buttons. ;)

Well that is it in a nutshell. If you have any questions or comments on this piece and/ or my process, please drop me a line as I'd love to hear from you.

Cheers.

Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead by Mike Perry

Michonne from The Walking Dead by Mike Perry

The Walking Dead Season 5 Poster

Hey all, I finally finished my "The Walking Dead" Season 5 Poster. Just in time for the second half to kick in.

Carol From The Walking Dead by Mike Perry

Carol played by Melissa McBride.

Abraham from The Walking Dead by Mike Perry

Here is another time lapse video of me painting the character of
Abraham on the TV show "The Walking Dead" portrayed by Michael Culditz.



Who will I post up next?

Glenn from The Walking Dead by Mike Perry

Newt Liked my painting!

I can't believe that I forgot to post this.
Anyways, at the last Calgary Comic Expo, I got to meet Carrie Henn, the actress who played Newt in Aliens. She liked my "Aliens" piece and stopped by my booth for an autograph and a quick photo with me. Needless to say, it made my day and I enjoyed meeting and chatting with her husband and her agent as well. They were very friendly and I can't say enough good things about it. Of course I didn't have a camera on hand to capture the moment but luckily my trusty neighbor Tom was on present to snap a few as well as my booth hand Nick had his I phone. Thanks guys!
So here is the proof and I've got my nice signed print framed and staring at me in my studio as we speak!
Cheers!

My favorite Movie 1987 " The Predator"

Oh Man how I love this flick. I don't think it is possible to get sick of this movie and I could not resist creating this faux movie poster. The premise was for me to go " full struzan" and do a Study using his technique. Well, as per usual, I went "whole hog" and created my version of the movie poster for this classic. I managed to squeeze the whole cast in except for the general. Even Hopper made it !;)
Anyways, here is the image and some process shots.

Final Image

Final Illustration

Line Under Drawing

Initial color lay in with the Air brush

Final Pencils w/o adjustments

Blaine Detail

    

Brown Coat Recrutment Poster.

Hey all,

Today I am posting up a finished version of my Firefly/ Serenity "Browncoat" recruitment poster. Previously, I had posted up a link to just the drawing as a WIP on facebook and I got ripped for making a spelling error so here's hoping that I didn't make any more. lol ;)

Anyways, on to the piece.

 

Here are some up close images of the various character portraits.

Mal ( Nathan Fillion)

 

Zoey ( Gina Torres)

 

Tracy ( Johnathan M. Woodward)

I also have several variants besides the full color version and you can see those below.

Cheers!

For a more in depth article on my process for creating this image, please stop by my other blog The Daedalus Workshop Here

Can't Stop the Signal

Here we go with some Firefly/ Serenity Fan Art that I am working on and hoping to have completed for the upcoming Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo. Keep your fingers crossed.

I whittled it down to 2 main ideas and both focus on the Browncoats. One image is intended to be more of a propaganda/ recruitment poster and the second image is intended to look more like a book cover/ movie poster.  In a perfect world, I would create both but seeing as how time is short, I'll be lucky to complete one in time for the show.

Anyways, take a look and I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Cheers!

Wedding Invite

I have some family getting married this summer and they asked me if I would put together an invite poster for them to mail to their guests. All the Art Direction came from Cheryl and I just followed her orders. The theme is based off a few old Travel Ads and some pictures Cheryl had of her and the family. Anyways, take a look and I hope to see you in Squamish!

Poster


Seb Close Up


Cheryl Close Up