EP: Fury Road Poster

Last Friday I watch Mad Max: Fury Road and thoroughly enjoyed it! I fully understand why it has garnered such critical and commercial acclaim! The film was none stop action and story from start to finish and felt an overwhelming urge to create a poster in response to it.

After a short time searching the internet I found suitable images of Max, Furiosa and the convoy of vehicles prevalent in the film. I played around with the size of the images until I felt that worked well.  After this I proceeded to outline the image choosing to use a scruffy style of drawing to reflect the voice of the film. I removed the convoy of vehicles from the image as it made the piece overcrowded, with them being too obscured anyway.

I've been quite inspired by the work of Dilraj Mann and Laura Halliwell from Nobrow 8 so adopted the idea of using a limited colour palette for the poster. I settled on two colours, black and a deep yellow, as I felt this piece would work great as a screen print and should I choose to do so, a two colour screen print would be much easier for my inexperienced hands to create.

After colouring the piece however, I felt that something was still missing. However I thought back to the work of comic book illustrators Jock and Sean Gordon Murphy and their use of half tone. The halftone really adds an additional visual quality to his work and I felt the same could be said for my Mad Max piece. Finally Adam pointed out to me that there was an excessive amount of empty space at the top so I chose to include the title of the film as well.