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Star Trek - Illustrated Poster Art

It's Star Trek month over at Planet Pulp and I finally get to illustrate a Trek poster!​

I was quite vocal about the film poster campaign when the first JJ Abrams Star Trek was released... and I did say I would have a go at an illustrated version of the poster, well, just as the next instalment of the reborn franchise is upon us, I finally got round to it. Projects dont usually take me 4 years to complete by the way! I actually roughed this out after re-watching the film again last week, comped it up on Friday night, drawing Saturday and Sunday and finishing it after a full day on Monday... so 4 days (not years)​

There is a tip of the hat here to Bob Peak's amazing poster illustration for ST:TMP and it felt right to do that to me...​also managed to incorporate Nero's drill in there too.

Hope you all like it - Very excited about the next film, 'Into Darkness' maybe a companion poster will emerge?...

JJ Abrams really did a great thing with making this movie, I was kind of into Trek growing up,  mainly because it was Sci-Fi (Star Wars was top dog at the time) but JJ Abrams definitely ​sealed the deal for me when he made this!

Click on the closeups above to see more detail

UPDATE

Check out the Illustrated INTO DARKNESS Poster

Click here to see the Into Darkness Poster Illustration