Evolution of an Opera image.
I'm working on a couple of Opera Posters for Livermore Valley Opera. I had a meeting with their publicity manager and a previous poster artist a while back. The meeting started with us watching an old Looney Tunes featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd about the Opera. The first image I created needed to be done quickly. They really liked my business card image and were thinking along those lines.


I perused a bunch of photos of myself taken around the same time and had a mad self sketching session.

This image seemed perfect for an opera ...
... so I started developing it.


This was a little too high school musical, but I was having fun with the concept.



This was the image I sent to the client.

He thought it was right on the money. Then he started showing it around ... it was touch and go for a bit ... before I could proceed they asked if I would be willing to make changes and discussed it at a board meeting. It challenged the opera community in that they were used to the work of Carolyn Lord the artist that referred me.

After the suggestions I originally was struggling over how to change it, but feel the changes brought out a better character (after all it's not Sweeney Todd!).



They used this image on the back of the program for the spring season which ended yesterday.
Now I have to color it and possibly add a background.

If you don't know what the image is yet. It's, as the program put it, "... coming in October ... Figaro IS The Barber of Seville!"

A little more background ... my dad's name is Frank and he was a barber ... infact I'm taking my son over to get his haircut by him in a little while.