Band Posters.

The band I was assigned for this project was called 'Monkey with a Jaw'. My first thought for the image was that they were a punk band, heavily inspired by the visuals of rock bands in the 90s. To begin, I created a pinterest board of all of the visuals that I felt matched the style I was going for.

After finding lots of inspiration, I moved on to thumbnailing and visualising poster ideas. At first I tried to produce lots of visuals in lots of different styles. Then I narrowed the designs down to the ones I felt were most appropriate and effective for the band.

I placed a lot of focus on maintaining the analogue, screen printed look to the posters. Because of this, I stuck to only a few colours of each design, and wanted to keep a layered look. Once I had decided which poster design I wanted to focus on, I created more thumbnails to explore its potential further.

To finalise, I took my favourite design into Procreate. I decided to alter the colours slightly from the original thumbnail in order to make the poster more eye-catching. I also used lots of different effects in order to enhance the analogue feel of the poster. Overall, this turned out to be a design very different from what I normally do, but I feel that this aided the appearance as I wasn't familiar with the style. I was very proud of the poster in the end, and felt that it reflected the band very well.

I ended up designing two final products - one to be a poster for bedrooms, more like an art piece or decoration; and the other to be used as a concert poster.