PORTFOLIO
2022
PROCREATE
Stranger Things Compilation Poster
After seeing the last trailer for Season Four of Stranger Things, I was inspired to take another stab at a movie poster design as I did back in 2017. I wanted to include elements of all four seasons to visually tie the story together in a nice bow, so I sketched a rough composition and then created a collage of photos in Photoshop to base my drawing on. I then imported that into Procreate and did a black and white sketch based off of it. After that, I used a round brush at a low opacity to build up colors, starting with the lighter areas first. A colored pencil-like brush was used to add details, then the drawing was imported into Photoshop for color and value adjustments as well as things like lens flares and titles. It was a challenge to get this done before the release of Season Four as I had intended, since that happened to align with finals at my school. Thankfully, I managed to get it done just in time!
Process
STEP 1
This is the initial rough sketch I did while brainstorming. I liked the idea of showing the evolution of Eleven by having multiple versions as well as showing the passage of time in a clockwise motion (echoing the clock at the top) starting at the bottom left with season one. Finally, I decided to have the main villain of the final season looming in the top center as well as the two main villains of past seasons at the top left and right.
STEP 2
In the Photoshop collage I made, you can see how my design changed a bit with the picture I used to Eleven in the center as new information about Season 4 came out.
STEP 3
This stage took the longest by far. I wanted to use the pencil phase to not only outline the characters but also fill in the darkest parts of them. Trying to figure out what to shade and what not to shade was definitely a challenge.
STEP 4
I made a sort of "color map" to play with the tones I wanted in the poster. I knew I wanted it extremely vibrant with nearly every color in the rainbow! This was just for reference and was not how I started coloring it.
STEP 5
This is what the "airbrush" phase looks like before the addition of "colored pencil" for the details.
STEP 6
In this stage, I finished rendering with the colored pencil brushes on Procreate and moved over to Photoshop.
STEP 7
Finally, I added some more black space around the edges, titles, lens flares, and my signature. I also adjusted the levels and colors. It always looks so rich and vibrant when I'm illustrating on a tablet and then in transferring to the computer it ends up looking much more dull!