ILLUSTRATION PART 1 (2012)
- Illustration ServedProject Featured On:Illustration Served — 10/11/12
The logo for Rainbow Serpent; a personal branding project for a series of illustrations which aim to elegantly explore myths.
The circular blue guidelines on the construction drawings above are relationally based on phi (φ, or 1.618~).
The first illustration in the Rainbow Serpent series – based on the Classical Greek myth of Theseus, the Crete Labyrinth and its horned inhabitant.
- The second illustration in the Rainbow Serpent series – based on the Babylonian myth of the goddess Tiamat’s defeat at Marduk’s blade. According to the traditional tale, Tiamat is split and her halves create Heaven and Earth.
- The third illustration in the Rainbow Serpent series. A man is petrified by Medusa’s gaze.
- A web-promotional poster for The Cabin in the Woods.
Client: Lionsgate Films
Art Director: Rolf Jensen
Potato-stamp type buddy: Alison Groves - Process shots of the cover of Vincent N. Perales’ horror novel, Nightmare Me.
The book involves a woman who sees distorted nightmarish realities, one which includes visions of a monstrous doppelgänger, or paranormal double, that eats her victims.
The original illustration (above) was painted with acrylics on textured A4 paper. The type was done with white acrylic on glass. - The painting was scanned before being coloured and chopped on Adobe Photoshop. The image above shows the glass/acrylic type treatment placed over the printed image.
- The printed image and glass were then scanned. Blu-tack kept the glass and paper aligned correctly during the scanning.
- The image above is the final cover, which prints at 6 by 9 inches.
- Detail.
