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the making of a Mondo poster
The Mondo poster run sold out within seconds, but I'll be selling an extremely limited number of artist proofs in the shop.
13x19" | ink and pencil on BFK Rives watercolor paper. Original artwork SOLD.
the concept
Most of the iconic visuals from the film come from its early scenes - Alex's droog costume, the Korova Milk Bar, ultraviolence. I've always found the second half of the story more compelling, though: a post-Ludovico-Technique Alex tortured by all the things that once brought him joy and ill-equipped to fend for himself in a world that hasn't been correspondingly reformed.
To capture that feeling of helpless torment, I wanted to show Alex trapped in a spiralling orange peel of madness and debauchery.
THE PAINTING PROCESS
A timelapse capturing the creation of the traditional-media underpainting.
The first pass with pencils, working over a low-opacity printout of my sketch.
Adding values with layers of diluted ink wash.
A final pass with heavier pencils (I used Palomino Blackwings for this stage) and more concentrated ink washes to deepen the shadows and add more weight to the lineart.
The bolder values and colors are added digitally in Photoshop - using mostly Multiply and Overlay layers - to create the standard and monochrome-variant versions of the final illustration.
The painting process from start to finish - my first foray into poster design, and hopefully not my last!
