Digital Painting: Poster Assignment

I loved this project. After a whole semester of whining about not doing something that was entirely my creation, Dogan gave us the chance to do something completely on our own and I froze for a week. All my sketches were either too crowded or too simple or personal to make them appealing.

And then, the song came to me.

Here’s the process:

First comes the crude sketch and the study of the setting. I found pictures of the Silvercup studios online to get the structure kinda right (there was no time, but I wanted to add the speakers and the band in the background at first).

Then we have the first proper rough:

And then I separate the BG:

The rest is just a matter of getting Mr. Mercury just fine.

Of course, there’s 80’s lighting!