The making of the Cosmonautics Day poster (2015)

Yay, it’s our favorite holiday again! We’ve got three options this time: we can commemorate Belka and Strelka, drink some champagne in zero gravity or update the current understanding of stars.

Art director: Let’s go with the star.

Sending the sketch to the experts so they can create a scientifically correct Sun.

Drawing based on the sketch. Getting the planets’ position and sizes right.

The star is easy to find.

Performing the necessary manipulations.

Transferring the star onto canvas. Adding planets with fragments of previous posters.

Placing the planets on their correct places and starting to draw.