Category: Graphic Design

Explanation

This poster has several features that were intentionally added. From the cover, you can see a night sky and song lyrics. But the poster has other representations of the dreamy night too. First, the words(lyrics) go from up in the sky down to the dark grass. This indicates that there is a drifting deeper and deeper into sleep, if you know what I mean. Second, If you look closely there are some whirling winds in the background.  When you combine everything together, you see a word floating behind the main text, ‘silent’.

Reflection

The poster above is called: “Night”, the lyrics are from a song called “Dreamy Night” by LilyPichu.  Out of the three potential songs, I initially chose a different song and lyric but changed my mind during the second class. The reason being was that the theme was too difficult to develop and it was really time-consuming.  

Out of all the lyrics in Dreamy Night I chose, “It was so late in the night, my mind is drifting away” because of the fact that it had the most potential to have a definitive effective impression on the audience. I tried to convey a deep slumber and dreamy state with the night sky and the mist hovering above.

This project was daunting for me personally. I had to analyze what the lyrics were really expressing. Moreover, it was also hard to pick one inspiration to go off of for the reason that there were so many inspirations and each of them left a different impression on the audience.  One negative about the project was that it was hard to find the time. For instance, we worked for an entire hour during one of the work classes,  but it seemed merely 20 minutes passed when the class ended.  But on the other hand, aside from all the difficulties, I got to experience many other ‘Affinity’ features. For example, the Affinity Photo’ liquified persona.

The poster was also affected by the feedback that was given by other people. Two of the suggestions that my feedback partner gave were to change the color that made the lyric 3D, and to cast some shade on the grass. So I did just that, and the changes influenced the illustration in a positive way.

Before                                                                                                                                      After

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Process & Drafts

My Beginning Inspirations On a Padlet

Sky of eagle and stars

This piece is based on the design Element:Point. When I first got assigned the element of point, I thought about making an eagle in the skies so here I am. The black dots represents stars and the solid blue background is the sky. Almost everything in this poster is made up with the dots, this design task is interesting because there is so many styles to pick from. I really think this design could be more polished and creative if given enough time.

The reason why I chose to do this idea instead of the other 4 examples is due to the fact that this piece has more detail also I just like eagles in general.

The portrait even though its  appearance does not look like me but, The physiological/inner ‘illustration’ part does (Like the emotion) .

It represents a once trapped but released environment. As you can see in the poster chains attached onto the body is breaking away. The shadow on the right side of the poster resembles emotion. You were once trapped by it when you were small. But now the chains that bind you and hid you from everything is breaking. Only half of the body is in shadows now.

After this project I have learned that choosing an attainable and practical to reaching the project deadline. This would allow me to focus on the quality of the work rather than attempting to cram to much stuff into it/

I was able to successfully illustrate and complete the poster which only several minor aspects was not attached to the project. The biggest success was this knowledge that I gained about the  pen tool.  The repetitive tracing gave me ample opportunity to learn and master this technique with action.