Assignment three: A poster

The Brief: to design an illustration for a poster for a music event - I picked "a Jazz evening".

1. The moodboard: as usual, I found it very difficult to make one. I spent some time on the computer looking at some of my favourite posters - for a jazz festival in New Orleans, and others. I printed small images of those I liked best. In the end I decided what they had in common was mostly bright colours.

Ney Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival

Ivy Hayes

Milton (album cover)

Another influence:

Nótt, the personification of night in Norse mythology, rides her horse in this 19th century painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo.

This led to sketches of jazz players and ideas about making a poster with cherubs (I posted these in an earlier post by mistake).

I have learnt that I am not good enough to use the computer to cut and paste images. Putting it all together was done with tracing paper. I liked moving the figures around on bits of tracing paper until I was happy with the scene.  The function of my printer that can reduce or enlarge like a photocopier was also useful. 
However to decide on the final images, I had scanned my drawing and turned it in slightly different visuals.

Jazz 1

jazz 2

At this stage, I prefer "Jazz 1" as an image, but I'm not sure where the text will go.  Having no experience of making posters, I looked at the kind of thing people write on theirs:

Jazz Funk
FRIDAY 9th APRIL
8 TIL LATE
THE SANDPIT CLUB, OHIE...
TEL 669 741859






JAZZ
At the
Spotted Dog
Every
       Tuesday
                8:30 pm
Alcester St Digbeth B120NH
Drinks discounts for students
       and musicians.
Hot food Available for £1:50             etc.

Here is my poster.  I have used the computer to add text as I think it may be done, this is only to give an idea of what it could be like.  

The original painting has been made with acrylics, which I am just starting with. I still experience technical problems just to apply the paint smoothly!  I also added pencil and graphite. Unfortunately, the graphite doesn't scan well and some of the shading does not show.

It is worth noting that for the first time, I am proud of the result, despite all its little problems!