This idea’s been kicking around for a while. When I was living in Boston I doodled a few things on some largish pieces of illustration board, and one of them was a pretty goth lady advertising “Spiderade”, a drink full of spiders. I was always intending to dig it out and finish it in a vaguely Mucha-influenced style.
This October, I remembered this idea and started on it from scratch. Finished it off today. It ended up being more of a 1950s magazine ad, with some process choices inspired by the look of hand-separated drybrush work. Maybe someday I’ll do another Spiderade ad in a deco style like I originally wanted to. Maybe not. Who knows?
Illustrator, five and a half hours, including the half an hour I spent tracing some wrought iron balcony elements from my photos of the French Quarter, and the half an hour I spent changing it all to not use overprinting because Illustrator no longer simulates them when rendering out a jpeg. Maybe someday I will trace a few more of those balcony elements and sell a package of them.
Prints/shirts/etc on Redbubble, if you want ’em. Illustrator source on Patreon.