Poster'd

So I started working on the poster I blabbed about in this post - I was surprised to find that the huge expanse of paper hardly frightened me at all, and the layout of the thing progressed quite smoothly.

Here's the initial pencil sketch:



And a close-up of the mysterious Josiah Carp, an extremely fishy fellow:



Since I neglected to photograph the ink alone, we now skip to a couple of terrible phone-camera shots of the first layer of paint:





I'm pretty darn thrilled with this so far - it's crazy sometimes thinking about how far I've come since last summer, when an 8" x 10" piece scared the crap out of me.