Florida Arts Poster…

March 27th, 2006 | Categories: Animals, Before & After, Character Design, Illustration | Tags:

Here's that Florida Art Festival poster I said I'd post for you when it was done. (click the image below to enlarge) It was actually for the Palm Beach Cultural Council if anyone knows of it.

This was a fun assignment but it was tricky getting all the characters to piece together just right. As you can probably see from the original sketch, there was a lot of tweaking involved. That's another great advantage to working digitally, vector in particular... it's relatively easy to work the composition by adjusting placement and sizing of elements. Some might call this cheating, I call it saving years of my life. :-)

I'm looking forward to getting a copy of the full-size poster from the agency when it's complete... it'll make a nice addition to the studio. I need more finished art on my walls, plenty of sketches and works in progress but not much color stuff.

The client was very pleased with the final art, I was even lucky enough to get a quote from the art director for my upcoming testimonial page...

"Brad's artistic and professional capabilities are superior and made it easy for us to complete our project and go beyond our clients' expectations!"

Florida Poster Illustration before and after - small

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  1. March 28th, 2006 at 09:45
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    Very cool. Nice work.

    Maine artist working on a poster for an event in Florida, sounds like a creative economy to me.

  2. Fitz
    March 28th, 2006 at 12:51
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    Thanks Chris! I’ll certainly take it while it’s coming! :)

  3. March 28th, 2006 at 14:20
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    Lovely job!

  4. Tammy
    March 28th, 2006 at 22:31
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    I think these drawings are really cool and awesome.

  5. March 30th, 2006 at 09:45
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    Thanks guys! You’re the best!

  6. April 1st, 2006 at 15:41
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    Great illustration. It;s so smooth and colorful and funny and …
    How do you do it?

    Can we expect a video tutorial on coloring maybe with some speech added? :)

  7. April 8th, 2006 at 15:45
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    i dont fink i woul like 2 go in there lol but cool drawing***

  8. May 11th, 2006 at 19:40
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    Brad – I love the pencils, the colors, the inks – man, everything about this one looks awesome!

  9. liz
    August 14th, 2006 at 11:40
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    looking for a map of flordia around 1993(also mississippi around 1988, before casinos came in) with an art flare. Can you help?

  10. Rohini
    September 19th, 2006 at 04:05

    Hi Brad,
    All i can say is it’s just amazing, keep up the good work. I’d like to c more of ur cartoons.

  11. September 3rd, 2008 at 07:57

    Love the poster – should have been a great draw(!) to the festival.

    Howards last blog post..Florida Property Reviews

  12. October 23rd, 2008 at 03:23

    Very nice work here. Seriously love this poster and also the fact that you have shown it in the sketch stage and then the completed stage. Amazing work you are truly talented!

  13. November 3rd, 2008 at 09:28

    Nice work and good to hear that you’ve got a quote from that art director, it’s an accomplishment!

  14. May 11th, 2009 at 02:06

    Love the poster. I wish I had that talent.