After meeting with the client all became clear. Their concept was all worked out- a wooden crate almost bursting as the contents tried to get out. For this they decided they needed;
a) someone who could draw wood and
b) someone who could draw shiny metal
The original idea was to have the crate suspended on a chain, with additional chains wrapped around it.
I did a quick rough
The idea was that the festival itself is escaping from the crate. So I had to think what can I show to represent stand-up comics? What indeed? It's a profession that uses few props- clown shoes etc were a no-no ( "too evil" said the client, revealing perhaps a little insight into his psyche). I settled on microphones and...other microphones. The pages of script were abandoned. We quickly decided that suspending the cage this way would get in the way of the logo so I decided to place the crate on the stage. I was also concerned that the whole thing had a bit of a 'Deerhunter' soldiers in a cage vibe. The beer bottle also had to go.
So with the crate now on the stage I reworked the crate to look less frightening and added a few more limbs.
This approach got the go-ahead
I tidied it up a bit and added cool medieval metal hinges...
Which I immediately had to remove(too medieval). The cat seemed a bit too distracted from the proceedings so we tried getting him involved..
There he is, slashing at the microphone lead. As it turns out this was deemed a bit too vicious looking. I also added the chains idea- and promptly deleted them again (hooray for photoshop layers). My stroke of genius here is the addtion of that universal symbol for "funny"- the rubber chicken.
Alas, this too got removed..strict guidelines regarding...
cruelty to animals..
So there you have it. A little bit of resizing and it was done.
I really enjoyed this job and working with the guys.
The festival is happening in Kilkenny in June
Details here
This was painted in Photoshop CS3 using a Wacom intuos III
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