Week 5 | 27th August, 2019 | Prasad Joshi

In order to put the tools we learned last class to use, (image trace, clipping mask and brush tool and text) I decided to make a movie poster on the upcoming Wonder Woman movie comping up next:

I found an image of the comic version of Wonder Woman online and image traced on illustrator, adding colours to the hair, body and face, the paint brush tool was also used to create the star in the background and the clipping mask tool for the text effect. The gestalt principles used in this poster were: closure and symmetry. The image trace tool made things quite easy to create, although using the pen tool would be more helpful to create accurate and precise depictions.

As we got to creating our fourth poster, we were told to incorporate all of the tools we had learned so far. This is the poster I made by the end of the class:

This poster was centred around the idea of women empowerment. The women in the middle are those who inspired me as a women to follow my dreams and be who I am – a designer. I tried to incorporate all the tools that we were taught thus far in class. The gestalt principles used in this poster were continuity, good figure, closure, and proximity. At first, there was a struggle with using the image trace tool, because some of the images got distorted and because of the colour palette. This issue, I learned could be resolved by adjusting the number of colours each image can consist of. This made the reduce in the number of paths and size and make it more distinct.