Clint Eastwood as the Preacher

This was an assignment for grad school.  The assignment was to create a finished artwork using a particular illustrator of a given time frame and pair it up with a notable magazine of the same time period. My chosen subject was Clint Eastwood for Entertainment Weekly.  Of course, I was going for a cowboy type theme...and he had that right look.:)  The first photo below is my lovely husband modeling his hand for me under a light source so that there was some cast shadows that I could pull from for the illustration.  PLEASE NOTE THAT IS NOT A REAL GUN. Then I had to tweak my reference to pull some structural aspects to the piece....aka...the bones.  The second image I tinted the board with yellow orche and drew out my illustration as my starting point. Then laid in the background.  At this particular time, my arm was giving me a lot of grief so I was working in broader strokes.  My particular process is starting from the background and working my way forward.   These pictures show the type in white and painted in. However, at the last moment, I covered up the type so I had a solid complete illustration and entered the Entertainment font digitally.  Last pic shows the final piece.