17 Facts About Drew Struzan

Drew Struzan is an American artist, illustrator and cover designer.

Drew Struzan is known for his more than 150 movie posters, which include The Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner, Mallrats, as well as films in the Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and Star Wars film series.

Drew Struzan has painted album covers, collectibles, and book covers.

Drew Struzan worked his way through school by selling his artwork and accepting small commissions.

Drew Struzan graduated in five years, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors.

Drew Struzan completed two years of graduate studies, and eventually returned to the school in later years, after the campus relocated to Pasadena, California, to teach for a short time.

Drew Struzan illustrated the t-shirt that George Carlin wears on the front and back cover of his album Toledo Window Box.

Drew Struzan once lamented on the decline of traditional art in an e-mail exchange:.

From 1995 through 1997, Drew Struzan's work was shown throughout Japan in a series of one-man exhibitions, which offered his one-sheet work of Lucas and Spielberg films in a successful limited-edition program.

In 1999, in an exhibit entitled Drew: Art of the Cinema, Struzan had over 65 pieces of his artwork presented at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

In 2009, Drew Struzan produced a DVD, Conceiving and Creating the Hellboy Movie Poster Art, as a step-by-step documentation of his creative process, techniques, and industrial experience.

In September 2009, Drew Struzan produced an image for publication in Kurv magazine of Mattel's Barbie, in celebration of that doll's 50th anniversary year.

The 2013 documentary, Drew: The Man Behind The Poster, directed by Erik Sharkey, examines Struzan's life and work, and features interviews with filmmakers and actors involved with films for which Struzan has done poster work, including Frank Darabont, Harrison Ford, George Lucas, Michael J Fox, Steve Guttenberg, Guillermo del Toro, Steven Spielberg and Thomas Jane.

Drew Struzan came out of retirement to design posters for the 2015 documentary Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around The World and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

In January 2019, for the release of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Drew Struzan came out of retirement again to create three separate posters for the How To Train Your Dragon film trilogy.

Drew Struzan is known for working very quickly; typically takes him a week to two weeks to finish a painting.

Drew Struzan has a son named Christian and since retiring from full-time work in 2008 spends much of his time caring for his grandchildren.