My ideation came immediately while researching rockabilly and psychobilly poster design. Although I have come across imagery that remind me of Grindhouse style movie posters (and I would love to create one of those sometime soon), I was most compelled to create a horror comic book concept for my final project in DMA234.
I already had a style guide and skateboard from last semester to work with, as well as all of the individual elements I created for it; each basic element on that skate-deck not only has its own layer in the final file, but I actually still have dedicated files for each of them, so reuse was no problem at all. I shall save the posting of redundant imagery and simply refer to the assets I've reused.
The Carnotaurus sketch from my original ideation of the deck made its way to photoshop for some colouring. I left the light pencil detail to give it a gritty look.
The feather was a vector trace from a real fossil that I copied over (as there was only one authentic image I could find and it was quite a trace job, if I may say)
The lady screaming is taken from part of an image I drew of an actual woman from a life-drawing class I attended. I was amazed at how cool she looked once coloured with the scream text behind her. The original image scan quality was quite low, so I traced it again as my first layer.
I used inspiration from a common horror comic cover 'template' most recognizably used by "Tales From The Crypt." Also, I found a random horror comic page to use for framing.
Rather than use the seal of the Comics Code Authority, or what ever branch was labeled on these comics, I gave my own Infinitesima seal, and lowered the saturation.
