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Theatre poster assignment for class.
I chose to depict the book "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind.
The story revolves around the character of Jean Baptiste Grenouille, a man born with the most powerful sense of smell ever possessed by a human being, but with no individual odor of his own (a fact other people find disquieting). Jean Baptiste apprentices himself to a perfumer and becomes obsessed with procuring the perfect scent that will make people love him. In the process, he creates perfumes that powerfully manipulate human emotions, murdering 25 girls to take their scent.
I wanted to use the hair as a direct visual metaphor for Grenouille's complete intoxication from the scent of his victims while keeping his figure slightly menacing and creepy.

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:icongexpert:
Love it. Love it love it love it!
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~LaurenceDesign Apr 11, 2011  Professional Interface Designer
Great work!
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:iconcappuccino-noisette:
Good job ! I like the way you see the character, it's really how I imagine him too. Very great picture ! :heart:
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:iconemege:
~EmegE Jun 4, 2010  Professional General Artist
I really liked the book, the movie wasn´t bad, and your ilustration is personal and special :)
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:iconphantomness-2005:
The story was absolutely breath taking. I recently just read it and fell in love with it, and you captured the story not only with your design, but with colors and textures.

Very well done.
:heart:
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:iconalice-sama:
Beautiful poster, it really does capture the essence of Perfume.
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:iconsweetnightmares:
very nice, it love the colors, it has a sort of art nouveau feel to it. I love the textured look on his nose and I agree with the previous critique on the "story of a murderer" text it seems out of place i think it should be a darker or shaded maybe? Anyway great work!

have you seen the movie? it did a very good job on telling the story and has a very similar mood to this poster.
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:iconrquack:
Rally nice job on this and great concept, love the sickly colors against the hair, nice job and captures the character well too!
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:iconapiginacage:
My friend is reading this book atm. It looks really interesting. ^^;
Great job!
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:iconpansyface:
i love the book. sweeeeet picture! :D
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