Busy Week! Newsies Illustration

It's been a busy week. This is the second of two illustrations finished for The Vermont Children's Theater. For Newsies, I struggled with how to present the show in a different way. Most of the posters either had characters dancing, holding a newspaper and yelling or fists in the air with newspapers. I took a more subtle approach by demonstrating the aspect of a strike with the newsboy hat off and a stack of papers left alone. The energy of the musical comes in with the frenetic line work and the prominent “STRIKE!” on the front of the paper. I kept with a warm pallet to also denote the energy.

This was a huge win for me. I struggle with doing illustrations that do not play to my strengths. I took the challenge and found away to make it work.

Annie

With school out, I know have the opportunity to work on illustrations for this years Vermont Children's Theater productions. After many iterations and concepts for Annie, I felt it best to go simple and iconic with this poster. After a search on the internet, I was surprised that I could not find anyone that had done this before. I also felt I did a good job of infusing a bit of my style into Annie.

This was a bit of a flash back for me as I played FDR in my high school production of Annie. This year my youngest son is in the production. We do not know what role it will be yet. Performances are on June 29, 30 and July 1 at 7pm.

Preliminary work for Vermont Children's Theater

I hope to have this completed soon. Here is the preliminary drawings for the poster for Shrek Jr the Musical. This has been fun drawing all the fairy tale creatures.