Creating 50/60s noir movie poster?

[QuietCompany]

I love the vintage look of old movie posters. Was wondering how I'd achieve that effect. I'm planning to use it for custom designed hockey cards (so they would have a lot less text, maybe just the name of the player and a team he played for).

Basically I need to take a real image of a player (many of these will be black/white images for old players) and make it look illustrated plus create that nice pastel or paint effect of these posters.

 

[vetticustoms]

Google about ow the artists created them back in the day, some interesting stuff. As they had nothing compared to what we have now. My guess would be a lot of re coloring with the pen tool

 

[IamSam]

GOOGLE!

It's a wonderful tool!