I’m being very facetious in saying that he just ‘runs things through a few filters’, but honestly, the style isn’t hard to replicate.
- Take photo into Photoshop, reduce to B&W, use Levels to reduce it to basic shapes and shadows.
- Touch up shadows and shapes until the outline and shadows look clean and simple and good.
- Bring into Illustrator, outline into vector art, play with bezier curves until it looks good.
- Apply blue-and-red color scheme.
It’s not as easy as clicking some buttons – I don’t envy SF drawing in the delicate curves in the women’s hair in these posters, and that’s sensitively done – but when doing art in such a specific style and color scheme is all you do, it’s definitely easier than approaching every project with a blank slate. “Well, let’s see, how should I solve this design problem… Russian Constructivist protest poster style? DONE!”
