I'm currently looking for a reasonable poster artist for the feature film HOA.  I'd like to refer them to the producer and director.  

Thanks.  

Try Upwork or a similar site. The posters I've seen on here have all been photoshopped. Photoshop is one thing, being able to draw and/or design an original poster is another. You need to be careful of copyright - that's the reason I suggest not using a photoshop artist. They do have access to stock images but it just won't be original.

It depends on what kinda poster you want. Do you want a poster made from photos taken on set or from the movie? Or do you want a painted poster? You may want some sort of a concept poster, a simple, clever illustration. Maybe a minimalistic poster?

What's you traget audience? What's your market? What kinda marketing do you have in store? Do you have a name actor in the project?

Do you want your poster to just look good or do you want it to sell the movie?

All these things have to be discussed with the producer. Usually if you have a distributor, they'll make their own poster, as it's their job to sell the movie to people and markets.

I second UpWork. I found the girl that makes my posters there. I pay her $100, but I think she's worth it. If you click on the dot in my sig, you'll see my imdb page and the poster right there are made by her. If you like them, pm me and I'll hook you up with her.  :)

I design posters.

I'll shoot you a PM.

I basically see a man in a security guard's uniform standing on the street, facing a two story home with the lights on inside.   He has both arms behind his back, gripping a six shooter.

Big letters across the home.  HOA

I love the gritty dark brown and green look.  Rough edges.  Platinum Dunes.  That sort of thing.  Simple.    

I'm thinking of something to promote it.  For Imdb.  For AFM.  Festivals.  And so forth.  I realize it's the distributor's problem but this is for promotion only.    

Quoted from ericdickson I basically see a man in a security guard's uniform standing on the street, facing a two story home with the lights on inside.   He has both arms behind his back, gripping a six shooter. Big letters across the home.  HOA I love the gritty dark brown and green look.  Rough edges.  Platinum Dunes.  That sort of thing.  Simple.     I'm thinking of something to promote it.  For Imdb.  For AFM.  Festivals.  And so forth.  I realize it's the distributor's problem but this is for promotion only.

You have to understand that it's a bit difficult to get photos that fit the perspective you need. My advice would be to get a friend and shoot a photo of a man gripping a gun behind his back at the angle you want. That way it would be much easier to fit a home in front of him. Just do it in similar lighting to the one you want and want the home to be in.

It's not hard to do a good composite if you know what you're doing, if you have the right images at the right angle. You can even fix some lighting issues.

But it would be much easier to shoot the photos you need yourself and do the composite instead of looking for photos online. Plus you would own the photos. No need to pay for them.

Quoted from Demento It depends on what kinda poster you want. Do you want a poster made from photos taken on set or from the movie? Or do you want a painted poster? You may want some sort of a concept poster, a simple, clever illustration. Maybe a minimalistic poster? What's you traget audience? What's your market? What kinda marketing do you have in store? Do you have a name actor in the project? Do you want your poster to just look good or do you want it to sell the movie? All these things have to be discussed with the producer. Usually if you have a distributor, they'll make their own poster, as it's their job to sell the movie to people and markets.

I'm thinking the painted look.  Like maybe a photograph touched up to look like a painting with rough edges.  A night shot.  

As far as marketing, I still need a good tag line.

  

Quoted from Demento You have to understand that it's a bit difficult to get photos that fit the perspective you need. My advice would be to get a friend and shoot a photo of a man gripping a gun behind his back at the angle you want. That way it would be much easier to fit a home in front of him. Just do it in similar lighting to the one you want and want the home to be in. It's not hard to do a good composite if you know what you're doing, if you have the right images at the right angle. You can even fix some lighting issues. But it would be much easier to shoot the photos you need yourself and do the composite instead of looking for photos online. Plus you would own the photos. No need to pay for them.

  

I'm terrible at composites and photoshop and any kind of digital illustration.  This would definitely be an outside job.  I'll let them worry about that.  

But yes.  It's important not to use stock photos and avoid being sued.  

Quoted from ericdickson    I'm terrible at composites and photoshop and any kind of digital illustration.  This would definitely be an outside job.  I'll let them worry about that.   But yes.  It's important not to use stock photos and avoid being sued.

You can hire an artist and he can paint you the poster you desire. No need for stock images or photos. Make it look like an 70s-80s type poster.

There was a guy that used to hang here, Darren something, that does phenomenal work. Good guy, too. Darren Tomalin I think?

There are a good collection of artists at fiverr.com, whatever your budget.

ew... fiver... everyone on there must live in India, or something. It's called fiver because that's what people generally charge per hour, and not even pounds, it's dollars. Can't speak for the quality of work there. Somebody living in India can afford to charge lower rates because the cost of living is so low there.

I think the way it usually works is $5 for a draft. If you like the work, the artist touches it up and then you pay an agreed price, like $25 or $50. Might be worth exploring.

I tried it once. The guy had no sense of how a movie poster should look at all and afterwards he pestered me until I gave in and rated his work 5 stars...