The Latest Poster

Here are two ideas for Darrell's latest poster. I originally did the reddish brown one and then decided that the background would serve a more contemporary design better. So, I changed the background and the text placement and came up with the more Renaissance feeling piece.
I like the brown background for this particular poster and will use the more contemporary background for the more contemporary concert...coming next.

Poster for Darrell's next concert...Day of the Dead! I have another version, the only difference being the November 1st text is red instead of white. Whatd'ya think?

More Christian stuff

Christian the Lion

Rat Fink cover sketch

This is the cover sketch I will be sending to Dutton. The goal is to make the boy, (Logan) look a little rattish, but still cute...and the girl, (Emily) a "snot" but likeable in the end. So, I've given the boy, beady eyes, ragged hair, a long nose that ends rather small and two front teeth that are prominent. For the girl, an upturned nose and posture along with the down turned eyebrow help to make her look snobbish. I hope she still looks cute. Grandpa is in the background in his flowered towel, which in the end will be pink. The black boy is Malik, and what's in his backpack is the secret that turns Logan into a RAT FINK. What d'ya think?

A Musical Celebration

Darrell has given me another opportunity to exercise my graphic design muscles. I used the traditional Kanagawa Wave as the beginning, changed the background, took out the boats and fishermen, posterized it, changed the size and added text. Back in the 70's the great poster artist, Mac Magleby changed the wave, morphed the edges of the wave into birds that flew up into the sky, changed the shape from horizontal to vertical and added the text, "PEACE" across the top. His version pops up all over the place. It's a great wave. Oh, the school logo should be placed up in the left hand corner, next to the boxed text.

Rat Fink

Sketches are due on Tuesday, the 1st of October and I'm not close to being done...aaargh! Rat Fink is a cute middle grade novel. Black and white interiors and color cover. Basically, Logan (10 year old boy) is not happy that his grandpa (think dementia) has come to live with his family. Grandpa does goofy things...like going outside to pick flowers without getting dressed first, or as in part of this sketch, showing up at a school function and taking over the microphone to sing old songs. One thing Logan suggests to help grandpa find his way home is to give grandpa a camera. But it backfires on Logan when grandpa uses his camera to take a picture of Logan (left hand part of sketch), later used as fodder for blackmail by Logan's nemesis.

Two down, six to go.