evaluation

I really enjoyed this brief, what really helped me to create my series of 80’s inspired posters, was the club to catwalk exhibition. The exhibition helped me to visually see the style and fell of the 80’s whilst the music created an ambiance.

My main influences for my two final pieces were Billie jeane, Nick Knight and Katherine Hamnett. When I incorporated the sketchy style of Billie jeane, the rainbow colours of knick night and the bold type faces Katherine hamnett used. I think this is what gave my work an 80’s look.

For my first illustration I used a photo of Madonna with an 80’s new romantic look. I then picked out the outlines of her face with bold black lines making it stand out; I used inspiration from Billie Jeane and used a tablet to sketch her hair out in individual lines. To finish it off I added bright red lips and a faint V&A logo behind this, I then surrounded it with a diamond shape and made these yellow to stand out against the black of the hair and face. This then led me to my second illustration as the diamond helped me make slight changes and place this illustration into on big illustration in a dynamic pattern. I changed the hair on my illustration to block colours and my other with a multi-colour face like nick knight’s work, I then changed the background colours to primary colours (red, blue, yellow) and placed a yellow v and a logo in the centre, and this made my second illustration as a whole.

For my first poster I enlarged my first illustration and mirrored them on each side so where they overlapped made a smaller diamond shape. I finished this off with bold Katherine Hammnet style text and the travel information smaller underneath. The background was white making the yellow stand out on the illustration and the black of the face and text worked well and complimented the yellow.

My second poster I placed my dynamic illustration on both sides, I then made the background black making my primary colours stand out and clash much like the style of the 80’s. After this I used a bold impact text like Katherine in white with a yellow outline making it stand out on the background.

I am very happy with my outcomes, and I think I have achieved the style I was going for with bold clashing colours, an 80’s new romantic style and clashing colours. If I was to improve something on my work I would pay more attention to detail on my illustration I think this is only a minor blip on my work.