Negotiated Project ILTN3012

Yungas Road Poster This poster used a lot of inspiration from more 70's-80's based horror movie posters, evident by the font and red border. I played around with the font colour and position on the base of the poster to mimic a long road meeting point, shown in the second image. I placed a rough sketch to work around and produce a frame for the image, I also tried creating a forest background by using a textured brush to create treetops that catch light from the sun as it falls. The textured brush was also useful for creating tire track effects along the road path. I don't think the poster is amazingly successful in communicating that the road is dangerous and theres a giant fall off, I should have tried to communicate depth more in the image and create something a little bit more striking. I would also upon reflection like to have created some ornamental patterns to go along the bottom corners of the page, like a few simple skulls followed by some vines would ha...

Joke Poster I decided to illustrate the joke, A letter walks into a bar, and the bartender says 'we don't serve your type'. I had a basic scene pop in to my head, of a letter also as the bartender and the letter walking into the bar is of a font that everyone hates, which naturally lead me to the shameful typeface that is comic sans. So it's a bit of a mini joke within a joke, the colour of the comic sans character would also be a horrible bright colour, that you would see on a kids classroom poster. I established a basic bar scene using simple shapes and created a few bottles to scatter about to help show that the setting is a bar. I think the poster successfully communicates the message of delivering a dumb joke, it's straightforward, simple and not very detailed. If anything I think that the addition of bottles almost over clutters the scene too much. I have uploaded a version without bottles to compare

A few mini thumbnails for faux posters to develop, I liked the idea of a man drowning a child, but I definitely want to develop the Cyanide is made from Apples poster as I think it will be interesting to develop something a little more shocking.

Don't Eat Humans These posters are to go along with my series of faux posters. I have incorporated a red and yellow colour scheme to mimc the Russian Communist poster era. The text is big and in your face with a bright but not overpowering colour scheme, it wants to catch the readers attention and shock them. I have put in a communist poster below for comparison. The yellow border I overlaid an old paper texture and faded it to give it a war torn effect, it really simulates an apocalyptic sense into the image. 

Here is a phoney False poster to remind people for breathing air, I tried out a bit of a 50's illustration style in a vintage context. The man is just made out of simple shapes and lines, i think it realy lends itself to the 50's matchbox style of illustration I was aiming for. The poster is extremely simple and not very detailed, but I feel with a phoney poster such as this it doesn't need to be. I think it would run the risk of becoming too much on the screen if there was a lot going on, I tried to adopt more of a keep calm and carry on approach towards this.

Toulouse Lautrec is a post impressionist painter and printmaker, he was commissioned to produce a series of posters for the moulin rogue cabaret in 1891. This gave birth to one of the most popular images in history, showing some gentlemen watching a woman dance. Since then the image has become an icon in the poster scene and extremely famous worldwide, some looked down on Lautrec as he produced this as it was seen as 'beneath him' at the time, as he was predominantly a talented painter dealing with alcohol problems, which led him to indulge in drink and prostitution. Jules Cheret is a french painter and lithographer, who become known as the father of the modern poster. This is due to Cheret advancing the lithography printing process by developing the successful 3 stone printing technique. His artwork shows many beautiful french women dancing, wearing fancy dresses and enjoying life. His artwork became empowering for the french women of the late 1800s and early 1900s....