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How to Design Movie Posters Part 7: Finished Drawing on Grey Paper with Mark Westermoe

How to Design Movie Posters Part 7: Finished Drawing on Grey Paper
Take Your Drawing to a Finished Look! Mark shows his workflow of finishing composition on grey pastel paper

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In this unique course, Mark Westermoe, the creator of feature film posters for blockbusters like Braveheart, Total Recall, and Home Alone, teaches you how to design a movie poster. This course will teach you how to go from developing ideas for your poster with thumbnail sketches, through preliminary drawings, all the way through to a finished poster. Mark will cover the business side of designing movie posters, including how to get into this rewarding field of work. You will also learn the history of advertising illustration, and learn many insider tricks and finishing techniques.

In this lesson, Mark shows one of the methods for bringing a movie poster composition to a photographic level. He prints out one of the comps on grey pastel paper and renders it, using color pencils.

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