Punch-Drunk Love retro poster

I absolutely love this film! Paul Thomas Anderson is by far my favorite movie director of all-time! He has such a unique writing/filming style that works so nicely... I just had to make this fan poster!

It was a lot of fun experimenting with new techniques on this piece, as well as using typography to give more of a design sense to my work (it was also the first time I inked a complete illustration on a blue-line print)! I wanted to make the picture look as old-school as possible in a kind of 60's retro style (something I'm starting to do more often now...) I even avoided using vector type - instead I made photocopies of photocopies of photocopies (at least eight times or so) to make the type look really grungy and dirty. It was a longer process than usual, but I think it worked out quite nicely... I even printed the final illustration on aged paper (like the one seen digitally). A friend of mine who works at a copy shop near where I live was a bit unsure to run that kind of old paper through the machine (especially since it's brand new!), but it ran through perfectly...*whew*