#12korgar

So, this second hand store from the town I'm originally from asked me to do walkaround magic during their re-opening in august. Of course I wanted to make a poster (as I always try to do - just because I can). Basic idea: The store is called "12 korgar" which literally means twelve baskets. I just wanted to do a kind of comedic poster with me and twelve baskets.

I did no sketches at all before I went online and looked up baskets. There's alot of them. So I just grabbed a Pilot Fineliner and a sheet of copy paper and started doing the ones I found interesting.

Here (as you can see) I tried out an idea that I would be hiding in one of the baskets. That didn't really make it for me. During maybe half of these baskets I suddenly saw the poster in front of me.

I drew this really quick with my light blue Pilot Color ENO 0.7 and then went over with the fineliner. After that I continued doing more baskets until there where twelve.

There's actually more to this idea than just the twelve baskets thingy. There's an very old stage illusion in magic called the Sword Basket Illusion where the assistant or the performer is inside a big basket which then is pierced by sometimes even flaming swords. Just for the record: I'm not that kind of a magician.

So, back to the poster. I quickly scanned the drawings and started to do the layout. I quickly found that twelve baskets with a guy in one of them don't layout as I saw it in my head. So instead of going for a A3 format I just dragged everything around until it looked ok and this was what I got:

I left some room up on the left for some sort of headline. I had no idea what to write other than "here I am", but I'm just doing this because I really wanna make some pretty pictures. I also left some space underneath it all for further info. Now into Photoshop.

Here's some ugly flat colours with some darker shades almost randomly painted onto them. Flat is good, but sometimes the tiniest of variation can make it so much more interesting to watch. I of course extracted this layer just for the sake of this demonstration - when I paint I just paint in a layer below the inked lines.

Put it together and write some text and it looks pretty ok to me :)

But as always a white background is not the best option, especially not for a second hand store, so I dug out some textures and finally the poster was completed.

This was completed in approx. 3-4 hours. It's pretty fast but I don't think the quality is lacking that much because of it. Some of the baskets are seen from a slightly higher perspective that the others, but I think nobody will notice it.. Or care actually :)