I scrapped my original black history month poster after realizing how many things I was doing wrong and now I'm giving it another shot. First I forget that it's not a 4 color poster and my graphic that I put together/painted in Photoshop definitely wouldn't fit that, which was for the best because with my concept I had felt inclined to use mostly blue in the image. I can't seem to find my original graphic now but here's an earlier version that's not as nice (maybe accidentally saved after messing with the history or something, I don't know). I did use this one to make a slightly sloppy vector in simple black and white for my new attempt.
The final version that box matched the guitar better in color contrast.
So I guess a vector of a half finished painting/sketch over a textured and vectored photo of Mississippi John Hurt is better than an outline of MLK or Obama's face right? Right..? This poster annoyed me. As soon as we got the assignment my first thoughts were "Famous black people's faces outlined or made into two toned images and outlines of Africa. And everyone else is going to try the exact same thing." When I googled black history month for some inspiration I actually got a lot of posters with that. Am I the only one who feels wrong putting Africa on a poster advertising what's really American history or am I over-analyzing as usual? Am I going to include it anyway? You bet I am. And how is it not totally messed up to segregate historical reflection? Is that why this assignment has aggravated me so much? Oh forget it...
Here's a draft of my hopefully final attempt. I've only just thrown all those blocks of text down there so they'll likely be much nicer by the end.
Looking at it now I can see where I really want the "civil war" line to go. Good, I was worried about that.
Notice how I went from a happy and cool blue with exciting orange to an angry red? This symbolizes the frustration that went into it. Something something, fancy words, artistic expression, and all that jazz.
