Tasked with doing a flyer for Envelope’s “Samhain” event.
We usually do a bit of visioning beforehand about concept, but no one had time or drive to do this. I looked at inspo of some heavy metal posters and was drawn to a heavy perspective shot of an elf in armor: in particular I thought the sword widening with the forced perspective was really striking, and this kind of forced perspective was a concept I wanted to practice. (Fwiw, the final result did not end up with the kind of exaggerated effect I was looking for, but since people liked the teaser so much and G. said that it probably wasn’t worth it to correct, I didn’t attempt to go back and do proper perspective.)
I asked J. to pose on top of the speakers with a prop and used her pose as a starting point. The sword is meant to conceal the crotch and be phallic and vaginal at the same time. This was all done in < 1 day so I want to rework the composition a bit.