final design development

At the moment i'm trying to make the face for the women in my poster, trying to make her nose has been most difficult and i've tried various types of vector noses. the mage above shows one of the noses i tried but i thought it looked awful so i changed it to a small delicate nose. i've changed he colour aswell because the colour in the first image is to dark and doesn't go with her skin tone. in the second image the colour is alot lighter and works alot better. i still need to do the gradient mesh on her face to give her the right shapes and shadows on her face i've started this on her arms as i'm still playing around with it to find the right colours. i've also given her a beauty spot above her lip, i'm not sure whether this works or not so i'm leaving it there until i'm finished so i can decide then if it works with the final product. illustrator has become alot easier to use because i've been practising more by trying out alot of different tools on my poster!

Review of pitch

  On monday 15th October i done my pitch for my idea for my poster. my first few slides where about my research process, posters i had looked at and one particular artist J. Howard Miller. I chose his poster "we can do it". I found information about the poster including where the inspiration for the poster came from. i thought the women in the poster reminded me on a 1940's Dita Von Teese. 

The colours of her make-up are slightly dulled down where-as i want to brighten them to create a more modern look. I want people to know that twitter is just as female populated as it is male so using a women in the poster to promote this will work well. i choose a font called "motor oil 1937" to use on my poster because it is very similar to the original. 

Once i had finished my pitch i was given feedback by george and by my class. One of my ideas was to draw small birds all over her top, people thought this could be a step to far and i could be using to many birds on my poster, i think this will be trial and error and i can only try to do it to how what the outcome looks like. i also want to add a twitter bird logo as a tattoo on her arm and this idea was well praised. i changed the bandanna on her head to the colour of the twitter logo and added white polka dots. another suggestion i got was to add small birds on her bandana instead of on her shirt. 

Here is a screenshot of how my poster is coming along, at the moment i am changing the gradient mesh on her arms and face. I haven't done anything with her shirt yet but this will be my next task, and i'll have the decide on an outcome of colours and if i will use the small printed birds. I've kept her make-up in keeping with Dita Von Teese. I've even added real nail polish. the feedback i got for my pitch was really useful and i'm going to use people suggestions on my poster to try to make it better. I found it really helpful to hear peoples opinions and to hear what they had to say. 

Rosie The Riviter

im choosing to use this poster by J.Howard Miller as my poster, i think the colours work really well because they really clash it makes you look at the poster closer. the yellow background has a slight gradient into mustard yellow but the blue stays a flat colour. the top that she is wearing also has a slight blue gradient. there is a good use of shadowing on her arms as-well as her face. the big bold white text really stands out on the dark blue banner and the top. it feels as if she is actually speaking to you, making you want to work harder. 

this is a photo of Christina Aguilera from her music video "candy man" where she is doing the pose of "Rosie the Riviter" this show how iconic the figure is to america. she is still being copied today and even celebrities are making it known to people. 

Anouther version of this poster but this time it has been changed for breast cancer awareness. i don't know who designed this but there is not much difference with the poster. the colours have just been changed to pink and the title now reads "we can cure it" it still is really affective about what it is trying to achieve because it still talks about cancer awareness, there just isn't much personality to it or individuality. the logo on her collar has been changed to the breast cancer awareness logo.

Geraldine Hoff Doyle (July 31, 1924 – December 26, 2010) is believed to be the real life Rosie The Riveter, the artists J.Howard Miller saw a picture taken of her and used that as his inspiration for his poster. Geraldine Hoff was born in Inkster, Michigan. After graduating from high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1942 Doyle found work as a metal presser in the American Broach & Machine Co. of Ann Arbor. Because she was a cello player, Doyle feared a hand injury from the metal pressing machines and soon left the factory. she only worked there for 2 weeks and didnt realise that the poster was based on her photograph for may years. 

He volunteered for submarine service!

this poster show a glamourous women holding on to a submarine serviceman. she looks completely bawled over by him, because he is so brave for joining the effort. she is touching up one of his pins on his uniform making him look pristine and well groomed. its aimed at men to feel guilty that they aren't in the submarines and therefore they don't have beautiful women admiring him for his services. the man in the poster looks very smug/ proud of himself almost showing off because he has a pretty women who couldn't be prouder to be his, its almost a fashion statement that if you do join the submarines then you get women. the orange and red colour scheme works well together because of the women's red accents, and the red stars.