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Posted on 28/07/11 10:21:23 PM |
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chris berry
Overhead Overlord Posts: 724 Reply  |
Poster for our next play
Hi This is the poster for our next play in October. Concept's been approved but would appreciate any feedback on layout. Been staring at this one a little too long! Cheers Chris  |
Posted on 16/08/11 7:13:03 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Poster for our next play
Chris, A quick comment: those shoulders and size give me a bit of a problem. Also the diagonals of them lead the eye to not to where you want them I think, takes me to his chin. Maybe if you you faded, blurred and took the highlights out? Another way, keeping the highlights, would be to drop him down, so those diagonals point to "Straight and Narrow" , and then his head with kiss comes into one of the golden proportion zone of interest as well. Guess the text might cover his mouth then though, might be a bit funny if "Chinn" was by his chin  , joking, should not need to take it that far I think.
Only just a couple of thoughts.... trust you will get some other feedback, ideas. Continuing great work and enthusiasm on your part. Thanks for sharing Trevor |
Posted on 18/08/11 07:20:10 AM |
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BigVern
Q Quipper Posts: 674 Reply  |
Re: Poster for our next play
Chris, I like it! Only a couple of small suggestions... The shoulders appear to be a little grapically cartoonish and the dark edge around them and the face separate the character from his background a little too much for me. I would make them more photorealistic and tone down the edges. Also the plain grey of the background above his shoulders accentuates the separation from the foreground. I would add some other small graphics (something story related) that could be put in multiply mode at lowish opacity which adds some more visual interest, but is not distracting and pulls together the foreground and background. Hope my personal opinion is useful. Cheers Vern |
Posted on 18/08/11 07:20:13 AM |
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BigVern
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Re: Poster for our next play
I forgot to say though that I think it conveys the thrust of the story. |
Posted on 23/08/11 09:03:41 AM |
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chris berry
Overhead Overlord Posts: 724 Reply |
Re: Poster for our next play
Hi folks Thanks for the feedback! Trevor - disagree with moving him lower, but could you tell me more about the 'golden zone'? Would like to know more. As for the big shoulders, he's a broad guy! Vern - take your point about the harsh outline - will remove. Don't want to put other images in background - ~I think they will be too distracting. As for conveying the thrust of the story, this was the toughest one this year to crack. The main characters are actually a gay couple but the director doesn't want the audience to know this! So I took the other main theme, which is his relationship with his mother. The original idea was 'his' and 'his' towels, which I thought was hilarious! So this is not my favourite poster, but it's not bad. Thanks again for taking the time to feedback - sorry I took so long to reply. Cheers Chris |
Posted on 24/08/11 00:37:50 AM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Poster for our next play
No problem Chris. I like your work and probably fits in better than my thoughts, but I am learning. I understand better now what you wanted. The golden proportions are something our brains like. You can see them everywhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio There are other websites, but gives you spam so deleted that link Here is Caravaggio, one of my art mentors http://www.artble.com/artists/caravaggio/more_information/style_and_technique Trevor |
Posted on 24/08/11 01:04:51 AM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Poster for our next play
http://www.artble.com/imgs/8/3/0/121178/judith_beheading_holofernes.jpg |