LoneGunner Band Tour Poster

poster design, illustration, typography

Project

Information

The Client

LoneGunner Band is a conceptual music act built to show what industry-level poster design looks like in a real context. This was a self-directed commission, the kind I use to push the work somewhere a client brief never would.

The Goal

About the LoneGunner Band Tour Poster

This started as an oil painting I did back in 1989. The character, the mood, the cinematic weight of it was already there. What I wanted to do was take that original painting and build a full concert poster around it worthy of a real tour.

The LoneGunner Band Tour Poster needed to feel like it belonged on a wall at Madison Square Garden. I silhouetted the character’s hat from the original painting in Photoshop and placed it directly over the title lettering so the two became one piece. The cowboys flanking him and the lone figure on the right were composited art laid over the original painting. Bullet holes, burnt paper edges, and the ornate border framing the whole piece were all built in Photoshop to push the spaghetti western atmosphere from corner to corner.

The typography had to match that world. Bold, weathered, cinematic. The kind of lettering you would find on a wanted poster or a Leone film title card.

The Result

The LoneGunner Band Tour Poster works as both a live event poster and a collectible art print. It scales from a framed piece on a wall to a full billboard without losing anything. The mockups show it in both contexts and both hold up.

This is the kind of work I do for bands and venues that want something people actually keep. Not just a show date on a flyer. If you are looking for a poster designer who can bring that level of craft to your next tour or event, you know where to find me.