Arthur Miller
JULY 1, 2013
On the shelves since past friday is the special issue «The 100 All-Time Greatest» of Entertainment Weekly.
Mark has already posted his brilliant image and explained a bit of what the magazine's about.
I was so thrilled when Kory Kennedy called me to work on Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman for the theatre section. I'm a great fan of all this period of american writters.
This is the kind of assignment that reminds me why I love editorial illustration at first.
Illustrate a text you really like is just fun.
Anyway, I went to the bookstore cause I couldn't find my old copy of the play, and I really wanted my image to reflect the ambiance of the play, not of a movie.
After my memory got refresh by the reading, it was clear I wanted to show it was a set on a stage, as well as pay tribute to different levels of light Miller explains for each character entry or the different backgrounds.
For once I did all the sketches directly on photoshop, and here are the different stages of the process.
I've just shown Sketch 1d to Kory, the other are only for me, when I try to improve the setting.
Mark has already posted his brilliant image and explained a bit of what the magazine's about.
I was so thrilled when Kory Kennedy called me to work on Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman for the theatre section. I'm a great fan of all this period of american writters.
This is the kind of assignment that reminds me why I love editorial illustration at first.
Illustrate a text you really like is just fun.
Anyway, I went to the bookstore cause I couldn't find my old copy of the play, and I really wanted my image to reflect the ambiance of the play, not of a movie.
After my memory got refresh by the reading, it was clear I wanted to show it was a set on a stage, as well as pay tribute to different levels of light Miller explains for each character entry or the different backgrounds.
For once I did all the sketches directly on photoshop, and here are the different stages of the process.
I've just shown Sketch 1d to Kory, the other are only for me, when I try to improve the setting.
Sketch 1a
Sketch 1b
Sketch 1c
Sketch 1d
Kory liked it but wanted to see how it would work from the front.
To do so I had to change the set, I thought a lonely hotel room, without uncovering to much the final drama, would work well.
Again, I did it only on the computer.
To do so I had to change the set, I thought a lonely hotel room, without uncovering to much the final drama, would work well.
Again, I did it only on the computer.
Sketch 2a
Sketch 2b
In the end, Kory and I agreed the back was more interesting and we went for it.
Here is the final in the spread.
Thank you again Kory for this great one.
Here is the final in the spread.
Thank you again Kory for this great one.
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