Souvenir poster for Coldwater

This is the finished souvenir poster for the Coldwater Steampunk Festival.   This was a lot of work because the octopus and diver's helmet were so detailed.  Also the border and lettering were also done in the computer in illustrator 8.  I think my computer nearly had an implosion but it succeeded in producing what I needed to get done.  The poster will be available in limited edition at the Steampunk Festival in Coldwater this summer.

Steampunk Octopus

Finished the illustration, here is the picture without the words.  Lots of work went into this one.  The helmet and the octopus took many hours.

Updated Poster, still in progress

Here is the next stage of the souvenir poster for Coldwater.  It has the cleaned up octopus and the background is done, only thing left is to pick the colours for the octopus.  I will post it when it is finished.  Decided against a green octopus because that would be too much like someone else's project so I think I will go with reddish tones.  Let the organizers at Coldwater know if you like it. 

Poster in Progress

I attended the Coldwater festival last year and had a lot of people ask me for souvenir

posters. So I decided to do one.  This is just a rough. It will have a lot of elements from other things.  A limited number will be available at the Coldwater festival.  I will post more pics of the work as it progresses.

Fish out of water final

This is the final image that will be available for sale.

Below is a detail of the inset image.

 This is painted watercolour with gouache image from the line drawing. Without the digital overlay.