I rarely use collage, so producing this poster was quite fun and new to me - however I feel it would have had a more successful outcome if I had had a stronger idea to begin with, or an alternative visual subject/theme to explore.
Collage elements:
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| Found internet arrow images (cut from background in photoshop) |
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| Found library book image of cowboy boot (scanned & cut from background in photoshop) |
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| Photograph of wooden floor |
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| Hand-drawn rope detail |
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| Scanned in sarong detail |
My aim with arranging these collage elements was to produce something typical of a cowboy/indian theme, focusing on pattern and detail that manage to advertise the event well. As I like working predominantly in analogue media, i decided to challenge myself with this brief and work digitally once all relevant elements had been scanned in/sourced.
Final Poster:
Strengths
Overall I like the composition of the elements within this poster despite being pretty simple.
Drawing, scanning in and working into the rope detail in photoshop produced a really nice clean effect and this works well against the appropriate sarong detailing that I used for the background.
I was pleased to find some sort of arrow imagery in the 3D angles that I needed and sort of managed to play with them enough to give the (weak but obvious) effect of being shot through the boot.
Working with photoshop in this way is a new process to me - and just to be able to tackle it and create some sort of outcome was a success for me personally.
Weaknesses
I feel my solution to this task has a lot of weaknesses. I spent so so long trying to master photoshop, that I just got lost in all of the possibilities for this image. I found that creating an image from scratch digitally almost gave me too many options - forcing the decision making process to be hard long one and somewhere where I became completely lost and absorbed.
Having really exhausted my visual theme by this stage in the module, I felt I was maybe not as motivated as i should have been when creating a solution for this brief. Being slightly tired of cowboy boot and indian arrows - I found it difficult to create an interesting arrangement of the collage ephemera that I had managed to find.
In terms of answering this brief - my work is pretty weak at working as a poster. Running out of time meant that I wasn't able to really promote the event in the way that I had wanted too or include key elements that would have appeared on a poster in real life, e.g :
Time
Location
Event holder
NEEDED better source material as I felt the failures in the work have been dictated by the lack of ideas stemming from the minimal ephemera that I was able to find linking to my event poster idea. To solve this, I could take my own photographs of the elements I require in the dynamic poses I need for stronger composition.
Final thoughts
I am so used to drawing/creating the elements within an image that I need - not relying on finding sourced material to do the job for me. I'm such a collector of postcards, clothes tags, old books, magazines and I would love to put all my own collections to good use as I really like the effect of collage when it is done well and successful. I am keen to explore this way of image making in my own time more thoroughly. ***Maybe I should start a sketchbook/scrapbook of assembled collage ephemera - using the images I create as visual sources for further artwork?
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