Here's the another Olathe South poster that I designed - Hello, Dolly!. Since Dolly is such a key character in the play, I just have to include her face in the poster, so we arranged a photo session so I could photographed the student who plays Dolly; and then I treated the photo with a watercolor filter for the final effect. We had a lot of fun during the photo shoot. The costumes are very elaborate!
Here's the poster I designed for the second part of Angels in America. I photographed the Angels of the Waters at the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park when I was in NYC last year. It could not be more perfect for the poster. Eric plays Joe Pitt's character and I'm going to the play this Sunday. It'll be a marathon of Angels starting with Part One at 2PM, and then Part Two at 7:30PM, a total of over 6 hours of play!
Here's the poster I just designed for Olathe South High School. The mask was the creation of the costumer of the play Tam Osgood.
Here's the poster I designed for Eric for his students' play The Fall fo the House of Usher. Thanks to Lauren for being my hand model. The rest are all Photoshop. (No finger nails are harmed in the making of this poster.)
Here's another poster than I recently completed. It is another popular musical that audience are expecting to see the iconic image, in this case, a giant man-eating plant. David, the director, is staging the musical ala Film Noir style and that gives me a very distinct art direction for the poster. I requested David to provide me with a line or two of some kind of a "B-Movie-esque" poster tag lines to go with the campy retro movie posters, and he actually opened it up to the students to come up with something. They end up provided me with a long list of creative tag lines to pick from. I was just exciting that the kids get to participate in the creative process as well. In the illustration, I placed the plant behind a store window, which allowed me to position the title as the store sign on the glass window.
Production Note: The illustration was done with a marker on paper and then scanned and traced in Illustrator. Colors were filled in later and a digital photo of a textured surface was overlaid onto the whole image to add a touch of organic and painterly effect.
Here's the poster of Angels in America for the Jewish Community Center. Since HBO has popularized the play and the imagery of their promotional materials seem so familiar to the public, the challenge for me was to come up with something original; not to repeat something HBO had done. After meeting with Mark, the director, I've decided to take the conceptual route for the visual, as opposed to the approach of HBO which is pretty much a glorified still shot of a scene from the mini series. The final outcome was an image of a glint of hope amidst the destruction and darkness of Part One.
Production Note: It was a bright sunny day on Sunday and I took a bunch of pictures at the construction site of my new office since they had just knocked down a brick wall a few days ago. The image on the poster is a composite of at least 6 still images. Of course the feather was also a separate image.
Here'e the poster I designed and illustrated for A Chorus Line presented by the Jewish Community Center that's coming up in a few weeks. The posters are printed and delivered today and I can't wait to see them. Next in line is Angels in America.
