In 2014, during my senior year of high school, I took a digital design class. One of the projects was designing the poster and play bill cover for the spring musical, which happened to be the Addams Family. I had played around with Photoshop and was familiar enough with the program, but I hadn't really done a full on art piece just yet. Using just a laptop and trackpad, I created this. At the time, I was quite proud of it, but of course, as I improved, I saw more and more faults, so I decided to redo it as a way to show how far I've come, as well as make it generally more appealing using what I learned in college.
My inital idea was to put them in dynamic poses on a couch together, to make it seem like a hectic family photo. I made each character a different color to distinguish them and make them pop.
Several years ago, I had already started trying to update it. With this version, I was sticking as close to the original as I could, but eventually it got put on the back burner once again.
I finally decided to bring it back out and finish the job. I redesigned the poster, using full colors this time, as well as darker greys and blacks to fit the gothic and mysterious look. I took few liberties with character designs, but kept them true enough to the source material. I moved the characters closer together, to remove the vast amounts of empty space, as well as added a couple tiny characters, like the hand and the rat. To blance out the composition, I added the cresent moon (which if you've seen the musical, is an interesting plot to the story,) to create balance witht the logo.