Alice in Wonderland, An Experiment in Cubism

This is an old project from a few years back when I was in design school. I really had a lot of fun with it. The assignment was to create a magazine ad for a local theatre house in the style of cubism.

I had never made any sort of attempt at cubism before and wasn’t quite sure how to approach it. After doing a bit of homework, I was off creating my first piece of cubism ever.

Looking at my reference shots, I figured the Madhatter would get the most appeal out of the cubist style. I began by drawing random straight, interconnecting lines over a reference shot of the Madhatter. After I was happy with the mess of connecting shapes, I used some transfer paper to place the lines on a fresh sheet of paper. I scanned the lines and printed them on some fresh paper and began rendering with Prismacolor pencils.