My drawing hero – Drew Struzan

Interests, Life

I was cruising around some art blogs today and I found a link to his site. I looked around for a little while because there were illustrations for almost all of my favorite movies from the 70’s and 80’s. At first I thought that like Tyler Stout, he was just a fan of all of them. Then I realized…he IS the artist who did all the posters! I love every one of them.

Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Big Trouble in Little China, The Goonies, Coming to America, Back to the Future, …Mallrats!

He has such a talent for capturing the look of a character. But he’s also a master of layout, nothing seems out of place or squished in any of his drawings. I really like that he lets you see some of his preliminary sketches for the posters. It gives you a look into his drawing style, I can almost see the strokes happening right in front of me.

sketch for the Big Trouble in Little China poster

sketch for the Big Trouble in Little China poster

Some people aspire to be picasso or dali or warhol. But this is what I want to be when I grow up.

Trying new things, again.

Art, Projects

I haven’t been doing much drawing in the last couple of years and my skills have sort of plateaued. I’ve always used my sketchbook to quickly get new ideas out of my head and work them out a little before I go to the computer. But recently I’ve been really interested in illustration and posters, so I decided that I’m going to get better at drawing and that’s going to affect all my work for the best.

My current project is a poster for RAD in the style of Tyler Stout’s Alamo Draft House posters. If it comes out it’s going to be epic.

Ass Sliding Sketch

Ass Sliding Sketch