There was a skill to compositing elements to a movie style poster, to look for patterns or structure you can work around and balance the overall separate elements with.

Stranger Things art by Kyle Lambert – The Suicide Squad artist? I couldn’t find a name, anyone want to help? Two recent movies/series that returned to proper painted posters – The Suicide Squad & Stranger Things Painted posters fell out of fashion with the advent of sterile PhotoShop “floating heads” montages, but have recently made a comeback with directors wanting the same for their films or shows like Suicide Squad or Stranger Things. Indy & the Temple of Doom & 1975’s Return To Macon County Two from another master of the movie poster, Drew Struzan,

I had a poster of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom on my bedsit wall for most of the 80’s. Of course, the artist that became synonymous with the montage approach painted movie poster was Drew Struzan. More of Tom Chantrell’s movie poster work adored by Mark Harrison I’ve since discovered that Chantrell was also responsible for some other great fantasy and science fiction posters (over) selling films like The Land That Time Forgot, Moon Zero Two, and a personal favourite At the Earth’s Core. Tom Chantrell’s 1977 poster for Star Wars – plastered on the London Underground and bedsit walls ever since!

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