Final Design and Reflection

This is the final version of my poster. I am pretty happy with it though I wish I could of adapted more on my illustrator skills other than just using the pen and brush tools and live trace. I would of liked to explore more on how I can make the text look better as I originally wanted a texture on my grey text but I couldn't figure out how to do it.

I realised a mistake that I made was making my poster in the wrong size (A4) which then caused problems for me and was a pain to try and stretch it to A1 size without losing the quality of it and messing up the brush strokes.

With this project I felt a bit limited to design choices as I found it difficult to come up with several designs that are all based on the same poster, without losing too much of the historic reference to the original poster. I couldn't think of anything to change besides the person and the trinkets, I think changing the background would to taken too much away for it to relate to the original poster.

I think something I need to take intro consideration next time I use illustrator is to always start in the right size and to group things. I'd like to perhaps try using gradient mesh next time and exploring more with things like scatter brushes and making text look good.