[Poster for a fictional movie]Vortex a.k.a. John Carpenter's Vortex (1988)Directed by John CarpenterOne of the items on my creative TODO list was to make a poster inspired by the John Carpenter music track, "Vortex", from the album "Lost Themes". I like the films of John Carpenter a lot (there are several classics he has made, from the late 1970s to the 1990s). He is one director who has also composed the music for almost all of his movies, and it has a distinctive electronic style. A few years ago, he released two music albums, titled "Lost Themes" and "Lost Themes II", with tracks that sound like they are directly taken from movies he has directed. One of my favourite tracks from the first album is "Vortex". I had the idea to make a poster based on this for a long time, but didn't get around to doing it. Recently, @robertsammelin had made a few posters for a non-existent movie, and that inspired me to pick up this idea again.So here's the poster for "John Carpenter's Vortex", envisioned as being made in 1988 (in between "Prince of Darkness" and "They Live"). It's a horror movie set in the desert, with an ancient evil manifesting itself as duststorms. Kurt Russell and Donald Pleasence star in the film. Like an earlier poster design that I did, I tried to make the credits authentic for the time.The drawing was done with multi-colour ballpoint pen and Gelly Roll pen on A5 sketchbook and scanned. The poster was done in Photoshop, the font used for the titles is ITC Serif Gothic Black (same font used in the @robertsammelin posters and the album art for "Lost Themes"). The credits are in Univers Light Ultra Condensed.I made a variant of the poster with a paper texture, and you can swipe to see the artwork by itself as well.#dailymoviesketch #karthikabhiram@karthikabhiram@ampposters #ampposters #ballpointpen #ballpointpenart #ballpointpendrawing@johncarpenterofficial#540 / 27-Jun-20
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The Evil Dead (1981)Directed by Sam RaimiRecently, I watched an IGTV video by @therussobrothers where they had a discussion about Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead". This was a very low budget horror movie ($300,000 I believe) that was made by a group of filmmakers in their early 20s, but became very influential and a cult classic. I did not know that Joel Coen worked as an assistant editor on the film, and that the Coen Brothers took inspiration from Raimi here. I dearly love the series (my favourite is the much more polished sequel, "Evil Dead II"), and this original is a nightmarish, oddly funny and very creepy horror film. It has a good helping of blood and gore, very inventive camerawork and filmmaking, one must appreciate what they achieved. I drew the possessed Cheryl (Ellen Sandweiss) from the movie. This drawing was done in multi colour ballpoint pen and scanned.#evildead #theevildead#dailymoviesketch #karthikabhiram#ballpointpen #ballpointpenart #ballpointpendrawing#539 / 20-Jun-20
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The Matrix (1999)Directed by The WachowskisDid this Invert Art of Morpheus from “The Matrix”. This is based on an on-set photo shot by @jasinboland, which he had posted on his Instagram a few days ago. I loved the photo and wanted to draw it, and it seemed to be a perfect candidate for an invert art. I did a negative image of the original photo and used that as reference.The drawing was done with multi colour ballpoint pen on A5 sketchbook and scanned. First slide is the inverted image, second one is the actual scanned drawing. Third one is with the colours tweaked in Photoshop to resemble skin tones better, next is the inversion of that (I don't have ballpoint pens of those colours). Had I used a different set of ballpoint pen colours, perhaps I would have got colours that are closer to the skin tones in the negative image. Anyway, posting these. Also in this post are the photos I put up on my @karthikabhiram account.#dailymoviesketch #karthikabhiram#pixel2xl #teampixel #flatlay@instagram #hellofrom Hyderabad India #hellohyderabad #creatorstalentshow #vibetogether #togetherathome #bornoninstagram#ballpointpen #ballpointpenart #ballpointpendrawing #invertart#538 / 8-Jun-20
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