Saturday, October 29, 2011

Gallery 1988 Melrose: The Bill Murray "Please Post Bills" Show

"Captain Steve Zissou"
13x19" Pencil, white charcoal and pastel on paper

Something new to change things up a bit, I occasionally do gallery work and my more regular location for such is Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. It is an awesome gallery and they have killer shows (In case you don't know about them, do check them out). If you're down in the LA area, stop by the show if you're up for a good collection of art! Their shows never disappoint.


I originally was going to go with the Ghostbusters theme since my piece sold pretty fast at the show last time but I decided to try something different and get out of my comfort zone. The reason this is outside of my comfort zone is because I never saw The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou but know that the film has a huge cult following. It was also a lot of fun drawing Bill Murray at an older age versus how young he was in Ghostbusters. I'm pretty happy with the result, I wanted to do a larger piece full of Bill Murray portraits arranged in a typical movie poster montage, but time ran short because of current projects.

Speaking of which... in a day or so, I'll have a new card illustration posted, swing on back and check it out :)

3 comments:

Tyler Jacobson said...

Love it with the dark background. Very nice!

Dave Kapah said...

wow this is amazing
it's so freaking impressive!!

Eric Braddock said...

Tyler- Thanks, man! Yeah it was a last minute change, I think it helps give it a bit more punch.

Dave- Thanks for the kind words!