Photomontage/Book Cover Project
Drew Struzan is an American artist who is best known for his movie poster work, though he has created artwork for album covers, book covers and collectables. Many popular films, such as the Indiana Jones series and Star Wars, have had artwork painted by Drew.
He uses illustration and painting to create his work, which often takes weeks to complete. Work he creates uses a photomontage style and contains the images of several characters and/or scenes that appear in the film. The style of work is also fairly easy to recreate digitally. This means it is ideal for book cover use, for which I am using his work as a reference during my book cover design project.
Though this style of work is not limited to Drew, he almost exclusively uses it in his work. Many movie poster artists stylise their work in this way, though they often use digital means to create their work. If I were to recreate this style in my book cover work, I would also use a program, such as Adobe Photoshop.
In the photomontage project, I created a few photomontage pieces. While they were slightly different from Drew's work, they captured the same elements, such as including characters and scenes in the work.
My photomontage using characters and scenes from the game 'Dark Souls'
Above is my photomontage, inspired partly by Drew's work, though it uses more of a blended approach than his work. I felt that perhaps, in hindsight, my work could be cut a little so that the characters are more defined and fit together better.
If I choose to incorporate Drew's style in to my book cover work, I will use this previous example of my work to further better suit my work for the cover of a book.
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