ABOUT BEING PERFECT.

I've said this before but I'm going to say it again, I am trying really hard to have a more relaxed style in these posters. Here are a few practical applications:

The cut outs are not all EXACTLY UNIFORM around the object. When I did do them perfectly they seemed very awkward and out of place. When I gave it some variation it looked a lot more HARMONIOUS with the rest of the poster.

The colour mesh had a similar problem, it was very easy to keep trying to achieve something with perfect even shapes and movement of colour, however it looked a lot better with UNSTRUCTURED bleeding of colour. It captured a sense of MOVEMENT and freedom that really enhanced the figures.

No. 3

Ive decided to add some colour to the last poster to make it tie in a little better with the other two. I think it lifts the artwork more than the black and white cutouts.

CUT/COPY/COLLAGE

FULL BLOOM
This theme comes with a very obvious image associated with it. This photo is one of my favourite flower photos. The way the colours compliment each other is so beautiful!


FOR FUN
When I was thinking about fun, I thought of something with novelty and excitement,something unusual. The play of light and dark in these two images is so much fun, I though they managed to capture the idea of fun. Also I just love glitter.



FOR THE BETTER
This was by far the most difficult to decide upon as there is nothing that obviously encapsulates this theme. I decided to go for images that showed things that people look towards for optmism.
(Just a thought: I am a little concerned about the lack of colour in this poster.)

Words - education - knowledge.

City - development - technology.


Religion - salvation - hope.

UNITY

To make sure all my posters look like a SET instead of INDIVIDUAL projects I am making some features tie across all three.
All three posters will have a similar COLOUR PALATE. In particular the background will be the same across the three posters. My three figures will all be done with paintbrush LINES. All of the posters will combine photos, text, lines and background in a COLLAGE.

Here we go again

I've added lines to my figure to highlight the darker areas of the clothes and hair. I decided to make the hair on each of the girls quite dense to give some weight to the figures. Then the clothes are a little looser and lighter to lift the work. Each image has some cut outs to create a collage feel in the work.

I'm really struggling with the issue of perfection.

I seem to want to make my illustrations AS CLOSE to the original images as possible.

For these illustrations I'm really trying to take a more relaxed approach.

One, two, three

I started out my posters by focusing on the figures. I decided to use lines, inspired by the work of Pierre Bonnard as the basis of my girls. I am going with a basic black outline and will add layers of linework for decoration on top of that. The skin will be colour blocked, then depth will be added later.