Hello everyone! I hope you are doing well. This is my first post inside the cervantes community, which I've been watching for a while and I really like the cozy vibe that you can feel here. So today I finally decided to upload my first post here. I really hope you like it and you can support me and encourage me to upload more content.
For this opportunity, I designed the poster of a fictitious event, since it was the project of a digital vector illustration course that I recently finished in Platzi. For those who don't know, Platzi is a Latin American platform for effective online education, where you can access more than 700 courses in different areas of study such as: Engineering and development, design and UX, English, marketing, entrepreneurship and business, audiovisual production and more!
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Para mi proyecto, me decidí por diseñar el poster de la banda “Linkin ParK” ya que es mi favorita, así que a continuación les enseñare el proceso de creación y diseño del poster.
For my project, I decided to design the poster of the band "Linkin Park" since it is my favorite band, so here I will show you the process of creating and designing the poster.
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After a research in search of references and defining the concept and aesthetics of the poster, I made several sketches to finally decide on this one, which I would use as a model. So I imported it to illustrator (since it is a vector illustration) to get down to work.
Then, position each of the elements to have a clearer view of what I wanted to capture, and then start vectorizing.
That done, I started vectorizing the first character, Shinoda. Since I'm illustrating with vectors, the aim is to capture the most prominent elements of the character (Sometimes less is more).
Starting with the face and ending with the body.
Y lo mismo con los demás personajes
And the same with the other characters
Luego vectorice el logo, esto fue sumamente fácil al estar conformado por líneas rectas.
Then I vectorized the logo, this was very easy as it was made up of straight lines.
And then Chester's hand. Chester Bennintong was the lead singer of the band, but in 2017 he committed suicide due to depression. Therefore, I did not illustrate him as such, so as to represent his presence in another way and that the poster would be as a tribute towards him.
Then, I made the lights and shadows of the characters, again focusing only on the most outstanding details. Like some shadows on the face to give it volume, on the arms and illustrating the folds of the clothes.
In the case of this one (Dave) As you will see, I changed the design, since the other one did not convince me, it looked clumsy and in the end I did not like it and that is why I replaced it with this one..
Por supuesto, también añadí las respectivas sombras a la mano de Chester.
Of course, I also added the respective shadows to Chester's hand.
Then I designed a couple of flames, to give the effect that each of the band members were coming from there and were not just floating in the air.
With practically all the elements defined, it was time to define a color palette. This I had already more or less thought about, analyzing the aesthetics of the band where cold blues stood out, but at the same time a kind of transition of colors from cold to warm, so that's what I wanted to represent. I started with the background, but honestly I wasn't convinced by what I had in mind (using cold blue gradient) and it seems that (at least at that moment) it looked better in black, so for the moment I decided to leave it like that. Aside from that, I painted the flames a light blue and in the process was adding a couple of details.
Then, I painted three of the five characters using different color palettes and combinations. In the end I liked how the yellow looked on the skin and combined it with the other two palettes of the other two characters.
I made a couple of gradients in the shadows to generate more volume.
I also redesigned the flames, adding a couple more so that the effect of the characters coming from there was much better understood. Then I tried a couple of opacity effects on them and see which one I liked better.
Something I forgot to show was Chester's hand flames tattoos design process, however you can appreciate it completed.
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I placed a little better each element to make it look better, I improved the light effect on the fingers of Chester's hand and for the background I decided for a dark blue. With that done, I started to add the rest of the typography.
And finally, I created a little hierarchy between the texts by changing the color and also added a couple of random marks and of course, the isologo of platzi who was thanks to his course that I learned to make this poster. Now if I can give for finalized my fictional poster of Linkin Park in honor of Chester Bennington.
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Thanks for watching, I hope you liked my post. A hug and see you next time.😊
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