BAND POSTER PROJECT

For this task of the module, we were all given the name of a made up band, which we then had to produce a poster for using photoshop. My band name was 'Stephen Child's Small Guitars'. I looked at lots of examples of gig posters and created a pinterest board which I will link below. I initially made some sketches and thumbnails, and started playing around with a couple of designs on photoshop, particularly looking at the textures involved and the layering of colour etc. Here are some of my initial progress ideas.

I really like the effect of the paper textures and I definitely learned a few tricks with photoshop to make this look like a realistic old band poster - altering the opacity of layers, using the multiply tool to make the layers not look as though they're just sat on top of eachother etc. I was pleased with the outcome of these, however from an illustration point of view I think I could create a design which suits the title more - Tony mentioned in a group crit that I was missing a trick by not looking into scale, so I looked into this a bit further. I also decided I wanted to use photoshop to create a screen print effect, as this is something which I think could be really useful to learn about for future projects as well. 

I started having a play with the layers of colour trying to keep in mind a screen print effect, and after watching some LinkedIn Learning videos, I discovered the clipping mask tool which made everything much quicker!

I decided that I wanted to use contrasting colours to make the posters really eye catching and exciting, and I thought of producing a series of screen prints - one for each venue for example. I also had a play using half tone which I thought was really cool. I used it on the line drawing and even though the difference was subtle I thought it gave quite a good representation of screen printing as well as there were little gaps in the spread of colour, and it gave a bit of a speckled effect. This would work particularly well on a more detailed illustration but overall a good trick to learn. I played around with lots of different colour combinations and different fonts etc, below are screenshots of my progression. 

​www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/photoshop/how-add-texture-hand-drawn-artworks/#18

On the last screenshot above, I created a scribble mark with a black marker and used it to create that background. I used this tutorial linked for lots of useful tips on photoshop.

This is how my layers palette looked, I grouped everything to make each colour screen easier to find which worked well.

Here are my final screen prints, which would be a series - I produced 4 different ones for different venues. If I had more time, I wanted to look at t shirts, and how the design would be screen printed onto them.