finals

critique of poster

1)If your going to do Leet with numbers you should really put 1337, just saying.
2)Be concern that people may think its more of a CD then a concert. Over 9000 dose not make any sense...Explain much.
3)I kind of want to see more design..
4) Date/info/time is squished!! Plus band name doesn't really stand out.

But on the plus side I like the Mario reference.

Critique of band poster

1) All font is hard to read. I understand your trying to make music notes out of the title but the blue against the black is hard to read.
2) Placement is an issue. I feel like the time/date/place is cramped up in the corner. Why not use the space near the guitar.
3) White bar needs to go.
4) Find HQ textures. The hair is a little pixelated.

band poster

Texture

final posters

The things to fix from the critiques were:
anit study poster:
has 2 video games
the shoe is kinda hard to tell what it is
same with surfboard
the fonts sizes should match more
there are some random brown lines




study poster:
1st line gets too close to edges
some of the pics you can see the seams a bit too easily

What I did to fix them:
anit study poster:
made one of the game controllers a tennis racket
deleted the random lines (i'm not even sure how those got there)
put laces on the shoe and redrew the surfboard
made the top line of text smaller and the bottom line bigger

study poster:
changed the font size of the top 2 lines. made them increasing in size and tried to stack them for a diagonal line on the side
turned some of the pictures to try to hide the seams a bit better. I don't think they're noticeable unless you really look for them

poster drawings

poster

This is my original WPA poster.

Why might the artist have used the particular setting?

 

The artist most likely chose this setting since it is a poster trying to get people to come to the theater. At least when I think of a theater I think of the curtain as the most defining feature.

 

figure/ground relationships? 

 

 The figure is "on stage" directing. Although he is the only figure because of the conductor's stick thing he's holding it gives the impression of directing the action that we assume is on stage.

 

figure/figure relationships?

 

There is only one figure so there is no figure/figure relationship.

 

What is the artists saying with the composition?

 

 The artist is saying the theater is fun and people should come visit. The person isn't realistic and is more like a doll in the way it bends and then there's the 2 colors inside the curtain that are presented in a fun and interesting way.

 

What is the artists saying with light? 

 

 The artist isn't really using light in this poster.

 

How might you evoke similarly without any text?

 

 This posters design really speaks for itself, "Come visit the theater." The text helps reinforce the message but I don't think it is really needed. So I don't think anything would need to be added to evoke the same message without the text.

 

How might you change the mood without any text in a manner that stays true to the original artwork?

 

One way to change the mood would simply be to change the 2  colors in the middle. Most of the poster is neutral and most of the mood is coming right from that area.

GLITTERING GENERALITIES

This is a glittering generalities poster because it is implying that if you use axe you will all of a sudden be very popular with girls. This makes it a very appealing product to men.

Patroism

This poster is patriotism because it it is appealing to the people back home that by making ammo for the war they are supporting their country and helping with the war.

Wit and Humor

This poster is witty and humorous because it's stuffing all these animals and a person in that tiny boat. It grabs the viewers attention by being odd and unnatural and it will make most people laugh.

Pape bombs

The poster looked like a couple in black and white so first thing I think of is I love Lucy.

This just shows how much of a geek I am but when my mind goes to TV it then goes to anime right after and this was my first anime so it came into my head.

Zoids was a show about giant robots which made me think of Armored Core, my favorite giant blowing stuff up video game series.

Robots are a futuristic thing so my thoughts next went to the best of futuristic sci-fi, Star Wars.

The first poster made me think of a black and white movie poster. The first black and white movie that pops into my head is always Dracula. The figures in this poster are also handled similarly to the figures in the poster above with the exception of one has color. I see it mainly in how the artist of each poster treats the faces of his/her characters.

  Dracula lead kept my mind in a horror streak and brought this Goya painting, Saturn devouring his children, back into my mind. When it comes to creepy paintings this gets one of the top ranks from what I've seen. Stylistically this is very different from the 2 previous works. Although the more I look the more I think the Dracula poster and this have similar color pallets, mostly black and neutrals.

Next my mind went to a game I've been wanting to try, Dante's Inferno. It's based on the classic novel that's all about the different circles of hell. Where better to find a monster like the one Goya depicted than in hell was my train of thought. Again this is another very dark image pallet wise though it does through in more more red and yellow than the others do (not that makes it any more cheery when it's the fires of hell).

Saying "the fire's of hell" brings my mind right here to Mokoto Shisho. He's the best villain in my all time favorite anime, Rourouni Kenshin. He was burned alive but he didn't die and in one episode he says how the fires of hell are burning inside him (so you can see how I got here). This image however is much different from the previous ones because it's not a dark image at all.

Arts poster

This poster uses a very neutral pallet. They give the poster an earthy feel though the goldish color detracts from and gives the pallet something a bit warmer.

The artist takes a very simplified approach with everything in this poster. The conductor is nothing more than a silhouette and the curtain has enough folds so the viewer can tell what it is but no more than that. I'm not sure what's in the middle area between the curtains (it looks like fire to me but I doubt that's what it's suppose to be) but whatever it is it is very simple just like the rest of this poster. This is a good example of using just as much as you need to and not anything more.

The purpose of this poster is to get people to visit the theater. Often times in a theater the viewers are too far away to make out anything more than the basic shape of the conductor which I think is why the artist chose to simply make the conductor a silhouette. The curtain is kept simple to not get the viewer too caught up in that aspect of the poster so they can focus more on the text as well as the figure.

WW2 poster

This poster uses mostly the official US navy colors. It helps the user to identify this as a militaristic poster, specifically for the navy without even having to look at the images.

The smoke in this poster is very cartoonish. The artist has given the smoke a solid form instead of it's typical ethereal quality. The sub is also very simplified, having only 1 color and no depth to it so it looks rather flat. The artist also gave the sub a shark face to help with the idea of the unseen predator of the deep coming to attack. The battleship/destroyer on the horizon is also very simplified and flat just like the sub.

The purpose of this poster is to warn against ships using smock stacks (I'm assuming steam power) as it's a good way to get attacked. The exaggerated huge area of smoke is one way the artist does this. The shark face on the sub also helps with the idea of the unseen predator of the deep which is basically what a sub is.

Ram Poster

This poster uses neutral colors which gives it a very earthy feel. With these colors there's a kind of outside and in the dirt feel.

For the mountain part of the poster the artist made them look very flat. There isn't really a bumpy and rocky feel, it has more of a flat floor (though he does put it on an angle to help it look mountainous) that just happens to be outside. The artist gives much more detail in the rams though they're still not drawn "realistically". The rams are simplified but the artist uses a lot of shading to give them depth as well as using that to give them their fur in some spots.

This poster is trying to get people to come visit national parks. It's using the angle that in the national parks there are still wild animals that are hard to find most places because of humans kicking them out. The artist uses a sunset/sunrise as the background for this image to help with the romantic idea of things being natural in the parks. Romanticism might also be the reason for 2 rams (one male and one female). The 2 rams standing on the edge of a cliff, sorta like they're at the edge of the world, is just another way the artist romanticizes this poster.