How to compose and create dramatic key art
Creative director Davide Bianca explains how to create eye-catching key art.Key art is what should sell the concept, so you should make something that grabs people's attention, has the right colour palette and poses, and essentially tells a story in a single glance. This key art illustration (above) was created for our motion comic Slavers.It portrays the epic arrival of the Slavers, and the dawn of a new era of humanity. We wanted to convey a sense of vast scale and powerful destruction in the image. The composition had to be developed around the triad of the Slavers, which would be the main focal point, but in order to empower the characters we also needed to showcase the environment in which they were placed.Given the characters' poses we opted for a classic compositional appr...