Throughout the start of the year my AS Graphics group and I learnt a lot of impressive skills, such as making a no staples book, or producing our own John Porcellino King-Cat. At the start of the year I wasn't very confident with my skills as an artist or graphic designer, however now I feel loads more confident, and feel I have produced some amazing things throughout my time as a Graphics student.
Slightly later in the year we had to start planning our Unit 1 coursework, we got given a topic that we had to produce either a 'Gig Poster' or a 'Movie Poster'. As I am into music a lot more than I am into films I decided to make a Gig Poster. As I didn't want mine to be an existing/famous band, I decided to focus it on one of the village bands that I know and go and what perform sometimes. My inital idea was my Dad's band 'The Mighty Lashes', after alot of deliberation I decided against this idea as they weren't really performing anymore and it would have been hard to get any images of them performing. I then thought of a friends band 'This is Two' who have done a lot of support work for people such as 'Tinchy Stryder' etc. They are all still studying at LIPA university. As this is where they are based I again decided against this idea as it would be very difficult to get to Liverpool. I then thought, what if I made up my own band, as this way I could make it any kind of band that suits me and get people I know at college to help me out with the images. As 60's rock bands really interest me and have done for some time, I really wanted to focus on this as I've always wanted to learn more about it anyway and this would be the perfect opportunity. I then went on to research into 60's rock more and got together some Iconography.
Durning my time of research I found many amazingly talented artist who also focused mainly on 60's rock, poeple such as, Wes Wilson and Darren Grealish. As I previously said, as I am not very confident with my style of art, I much prefered to work on Illustrator or Photoshop, where I was able to get the colours and contrast perfect, also having the text managable and being able to change it to where ever I wanted whenever I wanted without having the worry about ruining the work. For the main part of my experimentation, I used the what I had done for my artist copies. I worked in ink as that is what many of the artists working at the time used. I liked this method alot as I felt it alot easier to work in that than paint. I also feel as many artist used it at the time, it was best for my topic too.
For my final piece I decided to make a poster for my own band 'Golden Hour' whereby I had made up a venue, date, and time. I decided to make up all my own stuff as I feel this way I would be able to twist and bend it into any way I wanted and really make it my own, which I feel I achieved very well. If I were to change anything for my Final piece I would probably add a few more personal details into it, such as drawn images to do with 60's rock. Although I did not get in everything I hoped for I still feel it worked well and I am happy with the way it looks.
