Sugar Bean Sisters - Finished

As promised, here is the final artwork for the Sugar Bean Sisters poster. I really like how things turned out. Let me know what you think!

Sugar Bean Sisters Final Drawing

While you are waiting for the aliens to come back and get you, here's a sneak peek at what it might look like. This is the final drawing for the Sugar Bean Sisters poster I am creating for Footlight Players Theater in Charleston, South Carolina. It is 7" x 13"; black Prismacolor and white charcoal on gray toned paper. This is the first time I have done a two tone drawing on gray paper in I can't remember how long and I really enjoyed it.. I am sure there will be more where that came from. The final digital
color version is about halfway finished and I will post it sometime next week when it is finished.

Sugar Bean Sisters thumbnail sketches

Sugar Bean Sisters Sketches

Creating art for theater is always fun because the variety of stories is ever changing. I have had the opportunity to do numerous play and opera posters and I never get tired of it. Something about the blank slate and the open possibilities inspires me. I am currently working on a poster for a Footlight Players Theater in Charleston, South Carolina for their upcoming production of The Sugar Bean Sisters. The play focuses on two spinster sisters who live in a shack in the swampland of Florida. One pines for a husband while the other anxiously awaits the aliens to return and take her away. After a discussion with the theater director about poster concepts, it was decided that the poster should include elements of the UFO as well as the swamp locale. I set to work and these four sketches were submitted to the client. Ultimately they settled on sketch four, which happily was my favorite as well. I'll post the final when I finish.