Leaflet things

I designed these leaflets yesterday in Photoshop, taking inspiration from the composition, lettering and content of various old posters and leaflets. Using a piece of folded and crumpled paper that I scanned in to my computer, I messed around with the pictures to make them look real, weathered and old. I also used elements of some textures I found at cgtextures.com. For example, in the weathered version of the second design you can just about make out the texture of some ink-marbled paper that I used to create the effect of old stains and water damage.

Some good websites

I got some free fonts from dafont.com that relate to my project. There are thousands of good fonts there, so it's a good site to visit if you need some.

Also, cgtextures is another good site. It has loads of images of various patterns and textures, like bricks, paper, wood, etc.. You have to create an account to download full-resolution textures, but you can look at them for free.

Drew Struzan

Drew Struzan is famous for designing posters for dozens of movies. He uses a lot of airbrushing, and his work is quite famous for its composition. Unlike the other people whose work I've posted so far, Drew Struzan painted people accurately from photos, and most of his work has an emphasis on realism (aside from compositional elements like floating heads and stuff)

Blade Runner

Hellboy

Harry Potter

Star Wars

Greg Staples

Also worked on 2000AD like Bisley and Fabry. His stuff is slightly less grungy and more contemporary, and he sometimes uses digital art as well as traditional painting methods, which is something I'm interested in.

Click on the pictures to see them in full-size

Judge Dredd vs. Judge Death

Cover to The Hills have Eyes graphic novel (digital painting)

Wolverine Vs. Captain America

Some lady (digital painting)

Judge Dredd portrait

Glenn Fabry

One of Simon Bisley's contemporaries; also worked for 2000AD, as well as Marvel and DC Comics.

Simon Bisley

Simon Bisley used to paint comics for 2000AD. He used black ink, and sometimes acyclic (which is unconventional for comics)

Werewolf

Death Dealer

Angel visits Mary

Return of the Jedi

ABC Warriros 1

ABC Warriros 2