Susan Szecsi illustrator's blog
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Unique Norman Rockwell style Gift to retiring "captain".
Recently I got a very interesting commission from GA. A community employees wanted to say thank you to their retiring leader with a unique present.
Was it possible to change one of their favorite Norman Rockwell poster and include their diverse colleagues?
The deadline was close so after a long telephone conversation I immediately started to work. I had to restore some parts and repaint others. Based on an old and small resolution photo of a print, it took for a while. I also isolated the children in the foreground as they would be representing the employees proportions and positions needed to be adjusted.
I got some references for the employees' faces from my client. Small accessories like logo and headphones needed to be incorporated into the final poster. We got a back and forth conversation and several reviews during the following week.
We hesitated for a while if Mr Schultz should be depicted with or without the helmet (a big C replaced captain America's wing) and eventually the majority of the office voted for keeping the helmet on.
I ended up repainting every bit of the poster and as a last touch applying some "distressed" textures over it to ensure the vintage look.
BTW, I usually ask new clients how they found me and in this case was surprised to learn that they saw a piece titled Homage to Norman Rockwell, (see below) from me on Dribbble.
Was it possible to change one of their favorite Norman Rockwell poster and include their diverse colleagues?
The deadline was close so after a long telephone conversation I immediately started to work. I had to restore some parts and repaint others. Based on an old and small resolution photo of a print, it took for a while. I also isolated the children in the foreground as they would be representing the employees proportions and positions needed to be adjusted.
I got some references for the employees' faces from my client. Small accessories like logo and headphones needed to be incorporated into the final poster. We got a back and forth conversation and several reviews during the following week.
We hesitated for a while if Mr Schultz should be depicted with or without the helmet (a big C replaced captain America's wing) and eventually the majority of the office voted for keeping the helmet on.
I ended up repainting every bit of the poster and as a last touch applying some "distressed" textures over it to ensure the vintage look.
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| Final version of the Norman Rockwell art based poster. |
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