A cowboy painting I did for a friend

Jonner

This is a painting I did of my friend with him dressed as a cowboy. I wanted it to be in the style of the Clint Eastwood/Sergio Leone film posters. I also wanted it to be loose and gestural.

But I'd like to know if it reads clearly, especially the background. Also, if it even looks like my friend (whose picture is below).

Thanks.


reference photo of friend




painting

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I like the pic, but you could go for a more Western-ish font:



Possibly go with that old parchment look for the picture as well. They're both a little cliche, but they seem to suit the pic better than what you have right now.

Jonner

That's true, but I'm specifically basing the design off of this poster:

Gafoto

That's some epic win right there.

furiousNU

Hmmm...if you want to go for the aged movie poster look you should consider yellowing the white parts of the picture(I'm sure there are tutorials on how to do it somewhere) and darkening the background behind the cowboy. Something else that might be fun is to play with fonts.

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Lalilulelo

More contrast in the face would put it over. Good though.

Gafoto

The hat doesn't quite exist right. Like the outside of the column intersects with different areas than where we can see it on the underside of the brim. Essentially it makes the column of the hat look too large.

anable

Your picture seems a bit empty, like a lot of space isn't being used. I would suggest making the main portrait larger.

phoxphyre

Gafoto wrote: »

The hat doesn't quite exist right. Like the outside of the column intersects with different areas than where we can see it on the underside of the brim. Essentially it makes the column of the hat look too large.

Also: the hat doesn't sit right on his head. Now I don't have a heap of experience with cowboy hats, but from my point of view, I believe that the hat needs to be lower on the head -- as it is now, it looks like he's a covert Conehead :P

Looking good though dude, keep it up!

Rawr pirate

Your art is Penis

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Rawr pirate wrote: »

Your art is Penis

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Xaquin

I love it.

the hat should be changed around some though

Jonner

All right, I narrowed the canvas (to 11x14 poster size), added more contrast and facial hair to face, fixed the hat, and messed with the red border slightly.

I'm still open to suggestion, but I think it's pretty much done at this point.

Agoodz

I would suggest lowering the hat ever so slightly and making the top shorter- that is, if you are trying to emulate eastwood's hat in the poster above. As it is now, he kind of looks like he's a mexican farmer with his hat like that (at least to me).

117Lei

Cowboy hats typically have these indents on the side of the top part. http://www.thehatstore.com/New_Hats/sa3.jpg