Drew Struzan has created some of the most iconic movie poster images, from Raiders of the Lost Ark to Star Wars: Episode III. This book cover his movie work. Featuring over 300 pieces of artwork, including poster art for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Hellboy II, it is suitable for movie buffs and artists alike.
Gabriel Hunt finds adventure everywhere he goes. The warlord's men came to New York to preserve a terrible secret - and left a dead body in their wake. Now Gabriel Hunt is on their trail, a path that will take him to the treacherous alleyways and rooftops of Shanghai and a showdown with a madman out to resurrect a deadly figure from China's past.
Is it one of those assemble-the-team deals? YOU BET! The scientist. The murderer. The mercs. The witch. And the half-human visitor from the Underneath. The mission: Recover the most amazing mineral power source ever discovered. The target: Miles beneath the Earth's crust, teeming with monster denizens we haven't seen in centuries. It's a one-way trip straight to HELL.
Drew Struzan found out the difference between a "fine artist" and "illustrator" while still in art school. A fine artist painted whatever he wanted. An illustrator painted for money. "I wanted to paint what I wanted," he said, "but I was hungry aldready, so I said I'd become an illustrator. My only motivation was to paint for a living." Within a bountiful career spanning nearly four decades, Drew has seen the craft of illustration become fine art in its own right - housed in galleries, commanding premium prices, and viewed world-wide - and was in fact one of the instigators of that transition with his unforgettable and iconic movie poster paintings. His striking renderings and flair for dead-on portraiture provided a visual identity for everything from Star Wars and Indiana Jones series to the Muppets and the Back to the Future trilogy, with dozens of equally recognizable movies in-between.The Art of Drew Struzan is a behind-the-scenes collation of the numerous "comps" (in-work sketches and rough illustrations) that led to many of these famous images, along with abandoned concepts and never-realized projects such as posters for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It is a peek inside not only the artist's studio, but a parallel history of the rise and fall of movie poster illustration in Hollywood. Here the work is described in the artist's own voice from the vaunted victories to the numbing disppointments, in a project-to-project timeline that exemplifies the history of a form that is gradually becoming lost to all except those who cherish it.