June and The Bee Poster, Continued

An update on the poster - In the original when I got to the hair, I slipped into some old bad habits, and I finally had to swallow my pride and re-work it.  The great part about this hybrid setup that I'm developing is that when I want to make corrections, I can mask it out, print the whole thing in blue, and then re-ink problem places.  It was also the right time to add the poster text.


"Alphonse Mucha - Job - Google Art Project" by Alfons Mucha - gAGlllq_JU7ILQ at Google Cultural Institute, zoom level maximum. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Since I'm terrible at sign lettering, I tend to use photoshop as a crutch, laying out text in a font that I like, working it into the design, and then (again) printing it out in blue line to ink over, so they have a more organic feel.  I'm sure there are resources out there for how to really do a kick-ass job of lettering a sign, especially given how long it was considered a critical part of an illustrator's education.

All that's left now is to lightbox it onto watercolor paper.  I think I can get that lithograph look by compositing the watercolors behind the inks.