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JonasScharf — Han Solo
Published: 2011-06-13 10:57:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 1655; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 0
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acrylics and colored pencils on gray board...Related content
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Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
This is amazing!
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"You don't believe in the force, do you?"
Thank you very much!
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Nicely done -- the background treatment is moody, terrific. The portrait itself is an appealing blend of realism and quasi-caricature.
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Thanks. In my opinion an artist/illustrator should be able to do foto realism. But that's just the technical side of the art process. What makes a drawing to something special is the artists very own style...otherwise you could just use an actual foto.
A good example would be the great Drew Struzan. He went beyond foto realism with his art and I think that's what makes his posters so appealing compared to a modern photoshopped poster.
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He recently put out a terrific hardcover book, The Art of Drew Struzan (Titan books) that collects many of his best known pieces since the '80s, including a lot of roughs and variations. Highly recommended. Beautiful stuff -- one of my favorite artists and, along with Bob Peak, my favorite film poster designer (I'm a collector of original one-sheets). The main point of the book though is that it explains his early retirement; it chronicles the demise of true poster art and the change in the studios' taste and preference for the bland photoshopped things that pass as one-sheets today. Sad.
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Thanks for the tip.Struzan is one of my Idols and the book seems to be great. I agree, it is sad that the studios prefer these ugly photoshopped posters which all look the same. It's like a deja vu whenever you see a poster for a new movie.
If they really do realease the Star Wars movies in 3D they just have to use Struzan posters!
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Beautiful, I like the background and the shading!!
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Thanks. No words can describe how glad i am that you like it.
and thanks for the fav!
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