How to Design Movie Posters Part 2: Designing the Key Heads for Your Poster

[New Masters Academy]

In this unique course, a creator of feature film posters Braveheart, Total Recall, and Home Alone Mark Westermoe teaches you how to design a movie poster. You will go all the way from first stage thumbnail sketches through comprehensive sketches to a finished poster. Mark will cover the business side of the process, the organization of it as well as the history of advertising illustration and he will also share many master tricks and finishing techniques. You will learn how to work with tracing paper and a light box, airbrush, and acrylic paint and how to get into this field of work.

In this lesson, Mark covers the tools and the materials, shows how to design actors’ heads with and without a light box, and reviews top illustrators’ works.

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