Poster project: The Deady mantis

 

I watched this old sci-fi film this week and it was much better than I remembered so I decided to add it to my little movie poster project. I painted the mantis in Krita. Luckily, that was my plan, as my Huion tablet was all over the screen in Affinity and only less so in Krita. Huion has not updated the driver in years and the image started at 24x36" so it was LARGE. I had to cut the size in half to get decent performance on my 10 i9 processer iMac.  Irritating but I did it anyway. I used shots from the film and references of real praying mantis for pose. 

Icons series: Lost in Space

 I drew the three elements for this a LONG time ago and then forgot I was going to add them to my icons series of designs. I just had to make the logo and place them. Laxy I guess. Not my favourite TV show by a longshot but it does have its place in history and the robot and Jupiter Two spaceship are great designs. 

 

I made this poster before I saw the film. I was inspired by the look of the character I saw in clips and since I have not done any art for months I wanted something light. Light was still challenging. This is done in vectors with Affinity Designer and I think is my best resemblance to the real person so far using that technique. I used several shots from the movie as reference and I modified the lighting for the effect I wanted. 

It's a silly thing but I am happy with how it came out.