Can you be more... specific?

Another poster of a favorite character from a 70s film. Robert Duvall as THX1138 in the first feature film directed by George Lucas. It's one of my favorite movies, and I think one of the best depictions of a future society ever shot. It's a depressing vision of the future, but the strange, almost documentary feel of it makes it seem like a real place in time. Here's two slightly different versions.

Wyoming

Another character poster from a favorite 70s movie. DOG DAY AFTERNOON. The great John Cazale as Sal.

They're All Gonna Laugh At You

Another poster I did of a character from a favorite 70s movie. Creepy Carrie White who allegedly burns in Hell. In her last half-second of happiness. CARRIE is definitely one of my favorites. It hold up, and is still just as nightmarish and heartbreaking as it was when it came out. The rare movie based on a Stephen King story that's actually better than the book.

Nevertheless, I Think You're Upsetting People

One more. This time it's Bud Cort as Harold from another favorite 70s film HAROLD AND MAUDE. I'm trying to do more and more realistic shading as I go forward with these posters.

Space Racist

One last poster for a while. This is a character from the Original Star Trek series named Bele; played by the great Frank Gorshin.

Your Humble Narrator

Here's Alex from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. I guess you could say he's the title character of the film. Same poster style. I use Adobe Illustrator for most of the black lines in these drawings, and then I take it into Photoshop and add the colors and the textures and type, etc... I like using Illustrator files in Photoshop and keeping the line drawing as a Smart Object so I can still tweak the major part of the image as vector art in Illustrator and it updates in the Photoshop file when I save it.

PHOEEEEEEEEENIX!!!

Here's the title character from the film PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, done in the same poster style as some recent things I've been doing.

Satanman! Justice from... HELL!

Santanman Comic Book cover. Approximately circa 1963, published by Uncle Burk Comics. Actually I drew it on my iPad using Procreate and a Bamboo stylus, then emailed it to myself and added the text, texturing and a few other details in Photoshop.

Joe and Bruce

This image is of Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, a couple of masterful documentary filmmakers who were instrumental in delivering the story of the West Memphis Three to the world at large. Their work is responsible for the series of events that lead to freedom for three innocent men. I've done a lot of images of Jason, Jessie and Damien over the years, and felt like it was time to make one of Joe and Bruce.

Another Steve

Continuing with my series of portraits of friends named Steve, here's another portrait of a friend named Steve.

R. Stevie Moore Superstar

This is a poster I did depicting legendary songwriter R. Stevie Moore at the very moment when the top of his head turned into a beam of light. He's written some of my favorite songs, and we've been pen pals trading our homemade pop songs since the early 80s. I was inspired by his recent world tour to make this poster showing him suddenly realizing that he's a genuine international Superstar. Started in Adobe Illustrator, and finished in Photoshop.

Ballpoint pen - colored in Photoshop.

Ballpoint pen - colored in Photoshop

Ballpoint pen - colored in Photoshop

Ballpoint pen - colored and modified in Photoshop.

Some character designs for a short film project.

This is a fake comic book cover I did. Unspeakable Monster Attack!! The word "Unspeakable" was added because I didn't know what to do with that empty area above the word "Monster." I was going for the style of the old Marvel Monster comics that amazing comic artists like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko drew. I know there's some effects in there like the glow that don't look "vintage" but it's sort of my own version of vintage I guess. I saved jpegs of my progress, so if you scroll down you can see it decomposing before your very eyes. This final version is...

Step Eight. Final with some additional tweaks to the ink and colors plus I added some distressing to make it look more like an old comic book.

Step Seven. Text and some more tweaks.

Step Six. More shading and some glowy special effects.

Step Five. Shading.