About Steve and The Lake House Studio

Steve Duncan is an award-winning Artist. His Lake House Studio specializes in vintage-style design and illustration. Currently Steve is an illustrator developing stationary lines for Carta Bella Paper Company. Along with his work at Carta Bella he accepts freelance projects. His past client list includes Disney Consumer Products, Universal Studios Parks, Williams-Sonoma, Scholastic Books, Inc., Gerber Chidrenswear, October Afternoon, Basic Grey, ModifyInk, and many more. He has served as Art Director at FingerPrints of California and Rebel Entertainment Arts and Licensing, and Creative Director at Suzy's Zoo and Agenda 9.

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Roma Poster and Metropolitan Girl Work Ups

I've been spending time this weekend researching an upcoming vacation to Rome. Working on the research this made me think about all of the work ups that I did for Carta Bella's Metropolitan Girl and the ROMA poster that I created.


Above is a preliminary scooter illustration that I did for Metropolitan Girl. When I start on a new project I usually spend a day or two creating "looks" before settling on a direction.
I liked the design and started playing with it as a travel poster. Unfortunately the style was just too different from how the rest of the line progressed and it was never used.




As an alternative to the original scooter illustration, I created an alternate illustration that was used in one of the papers.

Below are some initial figure studies that I did for the line, along with the original scooter illustration.



The line eventually took on a more retro 1950's look.


No comments:

Post a Comment