poster illustration progress

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so my leaping guy now has some color and i am adding some shadows and highlights in the buildings. Was thinking about adding his own shadow on the buildings but I feel he's too high up in the sky for that to look 'real'.

This isn't the final color palette which gives me a bit of anxiety. I've got more than 10 colors in there already and I have no idea how I'm going to simplify it down to just 4. I just don't like simple. I like complex and detailed.

I am planning on finishing the poster tonight. I am guesstimating about 5 more hours. Don't know if that will actually happen because my eyes are exhausted. So much to do. The weekend isn't long enough.

NPDA poster illustration in progress

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Further progress! Drawn by hand then fixed up and tweaked in illustrator.

The orange and yellow are just place fillers to give me an idea of how the piece will look when it's not b&w.

This poster has to be a 4-color process print and since I've never had to work with such a limitation before, I will have to think carefully about my color choices.

More on this later before the weekend!