Poster Draft

For this poster I decided to use lyrics from Grimes' popular song 'Kill V. Maim'. I painted the lyrics in ink and then cut through the paper. I did this so that I could then mix up the pieces of paper to create an interesting composition. 

After importing the lyrics and arranging them in Photoshop, I added texture and colour to make it match the style that I was going to use for the digi pack. I wanted it to be brightly coloured and convey the textured style of the music.

I experimented with using alternative colours and backgrounds. For this one, I used my lyric illustrations as a background and lowered the opacity so that the text, which I'd changed the blending mode to 'overlay', was still visible.

For this next one, I used one of the images I took for the digi pack and edited it's levels so that I could use it as a background to the text. 

Typography

Here is my own typeface that I made with a dry brush and acrylic paint. I think that it worked well due to its messy hand drawn look and that  it would suit the style of the digi pack that I am creating.

Typography

To get an idea of what style of typeface that I wanted to create, I drew out different letters in various techniques and styles. From this I could then see what worked well and what didn't. I liked the dry bush lettering the best as it gave an artsy but bold look to the lettering. 

Digi Pack Analysis

Colour Schemes

Complimentary: 

Monochromatic:

Triadic:

Poster Draft

First I chose an image and used the Magic Wand Tool to get rid of the background. I then created a bright pink background by using the Rectangle Tool and added a yellow circle by using the Ellipse Tool. I changed the blending mode of the model to multiply.

I added an artistic filter to the image to give the effect that it had been drawn or painted.

I then added the text using the text tool. I typed in the artists name and duplicated it so that I could make one bigger to use in the background. I changed the blending mode of the bigger text to 'Multiply so that it became faint against the background.

If I were to use this on my digi pack, I would add more layers of paint and scribbles to give texture and then maybe overlay a few of the lyric illustrations to give it a more detailed and interesting aspect to the poster.

Here is the finished piece:

Paint and Ink on Images

I decided to try layering paint and ink onto images. I did this by painting thick blobs of paint into my sketchbook and drawing the outline of photos in ink and then scanning them into the computer after they had dried. After that, I imported them into Photoshop and altered the hue and saturation to make them brighter. I then used the Magic Wand Tool to get rid of the background so that I could layer the paint over the images of the model.