Exercise: Image development. Part two: Poster.

Well this took me much much longer than I expected to. I decided on this image as inspiration for my own drawing:

And the word I chose to go with it is “Adventure”.

I did a digital drawing. One fault straight away is that I probably stayed too close to the source material. In the future I’ll try to be more willing to deviate from reference images.

Here is my process:

I spent a lot of time with the colours.

The final step was to include my chosen word in the finished drawing. Earlier I was doing some sketchbook work, brainstorming different ideas.

I didn’t have any font installed that matched my ideas. I ended up getting a key image and blowing up the individual letters as stencils and drawing on the script myself.

Here’s the final result.

I’m pretty happy with this as a poster design. I think the font matches the illustration.