Silhouette illustration: Proof

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This is another step of my silhouette illustration project; I have previously discussed my concepts and style inspirations. To make this proof, I first positioned the plane reference image in Photoshop and drew the smoke cloud, sketching the letters in by hand (using a tablet). Then I took my scanned sketches of Victorian objects and traced them in Photoshop by hand and then auto-traced it in Illustrator. Everything was put into Illustrator as vector images, and I positioned and tweaked all the objects into place and copy was added.

My favorite is the first. The second and third both have outlines around the cloud; the former has the objects in black and the latter has the objects in a larger stroke.

Silhouette illustration: Concept

This is the concept sketch for the silhouette illustration (see brief and inspiration). A major event in this comical play is when a plane crashes, so an old fashioned biplane is shape of the major silhouette with the play's name Misalliance coming out of the plane as smoke. I think additional copy will appear at the bottom of the flyer, since it's complicated to do all do by hand. The silhouette of the plane will be made up of Victorian style household items and men and women's accessories (marriage is another theme of the play).

The silhouette of the plane will be made up of Victorian style household items and men and women's accessories. Sketches of these are shown below. I will outline these in Illustrator and then arrange them in the program (much easier that way).

My reference image of the biplane silhouette, from iStock, is shown below. The reference for the Victorian items were mostly from an episode of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett--I watched it for inspiration and drew the images by sight, so there are no references images for those.