Post by djstar on Mar 25, 2007 16:05:50 GMT -5
I posted this in a few forums and maybe we could start here too:
I just put these three pictures together in a display for a theater group I work with. Someone was wondering how to market their
name and get it out there... here is one of my ways.
I go to the rehearsals with my camera on high speed and silent and usually get tons of blurry shots on stage. They are great for me for figurative reference. So I try to get at least one good photo for each actor and they love me.
Then I also promise to do ALL of them in either group shots or individually and hang them in the lobby. Originally it was for their fundraising and I would make color prints... but it was Not profitable for me or them.
NOW this lot, is a nice three character piece they are doing at Theaterworks in Peoria and I am trying to sell ME.
The pictures are 34x23" on paper with charcoal.
Here is a little demo of how they progress using a big fat stick of compressed charcoal like a paint brush.
I sketch it in very lightly... thought it would photograph but I got nothing, enhanced you can see faintly what is in there when I put the first layers in the background to define the shape:
I scale it up so I can see it and then really work from a little snapshot. I like to walk a lot when I do it to get the shapes so normally I just hold it, or tape it or other reference to the page.
First I try to establish the positions of the features:
It is not pretty yet, but I use the side and the edge to make the piece with a bit of erasing for texture... Here is the stick:
And of course you see the size I am working at.
Finished and signed:
And the other two:
I put out brochures on the easels with them and they have them available during and before the show. I get the chance to sell them to the actors at a discount or maybe even get recruited for another show.... possibly for pay next round!
dj*
I just put these three pictures together in a display for a theater group I work with. Someone was wondering how to market their
name and get it out there... here is one of my ways.
I go to the rehearsals with my camera on high speed and silent and usually get tons of blurry shots on stage. They are great for me for figurative reference. So I try to get at least one good photo for each actor and they love me.
Then I also promise to do ALL of them in either group shots or individually and hang them in the lobby. Originally it was for their fundraising and I would make color prints... but it was Not profitable for me or them.
NOW this lot, is a nice three character piece they are doing at Theaterworks in Peoria and I am trying to sell ME.
The pictures are 34x23" on paper with charcoal.
Here is a little demo of how they progress using a big fat stick of compressed charcoal like a paint brush.
I sketch it in very lightly... thought it would photograph but I got nothing, enhanced you can see faintly what is in there when I put the first layers in the background to define the shape:
I scale it up so I can see it and then really work from a little snapshot. I like to walk a lot when I do it to get the shapes so normally I just hold it, or tape it or other reference to the page.
First I try to establish the positions of the features:
It is not pretty yet, but I use the side and the edge to make the piece with a bit of erasing for texture... Here is the stick:
And of course you see the size I am working at.
Finished and signed:
And the other two:
I put out brochures on the easels with them and they have them available during and before the show. I get the chance to sell them to the actors at a discount or maybe even get recruited for another show.... possibly for pay next round!
dj*