The Lava Lounge this month has a time-travelling spaceage/stoneage theme, and as with the last poster for Glasgow garage band The Brutes I decided a low-tech cut paper approach. This uses a variety of monochrome tones to give a charming semi 3D look. I wanted the vox-strumming neanderthal to look like he was being beamed up to the UFO and used a strip of frosted plastic to get this effect. I also wanted to use stalactites to spell out the name of the Brutes, and hand lettered the band names before adding the rest of the text digitally.
The parts were drawn out separately and propped in position with crumpled paper forming the rocks of the cave. Reflective silver card makes the spacey background, all carefully lit to get the right shadows and highlights.
Some of the component parts:
Here is the assemblage before a bit of tweaking in Photoshop:
This poster was printed pretty big (20x60cm) for maximum legibility.
