In case anyone is interested, over at my blog I have something of a tutorial on how I make my kids' show poster illustrations. Interestingly, the tutorial took almost as long as the image.
I finally gave up and placed a call to my sister:
"Do you have any long, flowing skirts?"
My sister is a percussionist. She never wears skirts.
"I think Mum might have some somewhere."
"Great. I'll be over in a few minutes. Oh, and make sure I can see your elbows: I need to know how your arms bend."
To the credit of both my sisters, my other sister's friend, and my mother, nobody batted an eyelid when I turned up with my camera and started taking pictures:
"No, lift your head up. I need to see your face, so just be looking with your eyes. And show more ankle. Really lift that skirt up."
click
"OK, no, lift that arm up, and kind of point, like there's a bird perching on your finger. Yeah. And imagine mice are watching you."
click
"OK, awesome. See you tomorrow."
It's much easier to draw complicated poses with reference shots.
Results later, maybe.
For fuck's sake! If you are the sort of person that thinks a vector is a type of Vauxhaull, you are not the person who gets to send me logos for print. Pasting a JPEG into Word and exporting it as an EPS is not the answer.
Talk to your goddamn designer! Designers, do your fucking jobs and give people decent-quality logos and explain what they are for. Outside of their specialties, people are idiots, and if they don't know what an EPS is, they will throw it away unless you say "hey, if you are planning on printing anything with this logo on it ever, this will be really handy".
My head hurts from all the brick walls.
Now that Jeff is busy doing real work, he delegates stuff like ( the Supernan Poster ) to me!