Obscuritones poster

A poster for a female fronted rockabilly band, inspired partly by my love of vinyl, and partly by this picture of one of my guitar heroines, queen of trash rock n roll, Poison Ivy Rorschach:

Although the Ivy looks way more badass than my girl, I like to think my girl's sweet on the surface and savage underneath. For the background texture, I used the endpaper from my copy of 'Kon Tiki and I' by Erik Hesselburg, a sketchbook from the Kon Tiki expedition. I layered this up with print-textured colourblocks, and used negative space type to ring the changes. The colours used in the central illustration are complemented by the black line drawing detail in the heart.