The last step was to create my finished poster. I decided to do it digitally because I wanted to be really experimental with laying bright colours over a black background which can be difficult to accomplish working traditionally, and just technical limitations that my scanner only works at A4, and I needed to produce the poster at A3.
While working on the poster, I flattened the image without thinking when I was working on the text so I accidentally lost my layer information, so I can’t showcase my process as I went along. But here is the finished poster, with accompanying text. I just made up a date and venue.
I had a lot of difficulty throughout. I struggled to get the line art to work with the colouring that I was going for, and I really struggled with composition. You can see I moved the pianist from one side to the other, which I think improves the overall flow. I like the essence of the poster, I think it’s eye-catching from a distance and I like the colours and composition. I just think the overall delivery, the challenge of working where some parts are drawn in negative and others aren’t, the complicated light and shade which doesn’t necessarily adhere to any given light source… It all could do with better delivery.
Reflecting on notes for the future, I think I took on too many experimental areas at once.
Before I sign off I wanted to do one quick thing. It being a poster I wanted to see a physical version of it, and I thought it would be a nice way to close off this section. I went to a copy shop and got it printed out in A3.
Josh Robbins OCA Learning Log 