Walton Complex Rock Poster

I'd been itching to do some promotional work to diversify my portfolio when the opportunity suddenly presented itself. A friend's band, The Walton Complex, was in need of a poster and after months of nagging they were willing to try it out.

I'd sent them some purely graphics vector posters but they were more interested in something photographic and in grayscale. Let's face it, most rock bands don't have cash for four-color printing, but the photos I had to work with were limited at best.

The best of the bunch (see left) showed the band jamming, but with a dark background nearly enveloping the entire drummer. Because the photographer had taken the shot from the floor of a show feet were noticeably missing. I wanted to transform a dark club into a slick photo shoot and that meant removing an entire background, reproducing reflections and shadows and drawing-in four pairs of feet and one leg.

The results speak for themselves. It's like night and day.