Round 3: The final stage

So, after the last idea didn't fulfill what the Come Out With Pride board was looking for, they decided to sit down and really decide what things the image had to contain to satisfy them. They decided that they wanted both sexes somehow represented, the Orlando skyline, and they were looking for a bat-signal for gays. So, I went to work. I created another female superhero in the same style as the male hero I had previously created, and gave both of them the same swan insignia that was in the signal as if they were some sort of gay-lesbian superhero team rushing in to the Orlando skyline ready to save the day... errr... party!

The image had to be molded into a bunch of different ad dimensions for different publications, so I created the two superheros, the skyline, and the sky as four separte pieces. That way I could a lot of flexability with the way that the entire compostion fit together for each ad.

If you click the images above you can see a larger version of the uncolored sketch, the colored sketch, and the colored final image.

If you roll over the image above, you can see the colored version of the female superhero. You can see the relationshiop of the line drawing to the final colorized image.

I think that m favorite part of the final product is the chest of the male superhero. I'm especially proud of how shiny I was to able to get his costume and how it interacted with the bluer secondary light coming from the left.

Drawing the skyline was probably the most tedious and difficult part of the entire piece. I was in a constant struggle to find the balance between keeping the drawing simple enough to reflect the style but retaining enough details to be sure that the city would still remain recognizable as orlando. I also often had to switch the light source direction on a certain buildings from the reference piece to be sure that all the buildings looked they really do exist in the same space. If you click on the image above, you can see a larger version of the skyline and sky without the two superheroes in front of it.

And voila! Here is the final image as it appears in the advertisement. I really liked how the "Come Out With Pride 2009" headline logo came out and how it relates to the rest of the image. It really enchances the sense of depth within the piece. If you click on the image above, you can see a larger version of the ad.

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