OUIL403 - Typology Poster

After getting the ideas once I started trying to translate them into more fully formed drawings I found it pretty hard. I drew out imagery repeatedly until I was happy with it, which meant a lot of drawing. I wasn't happy with lots of my drawings. Just before I started the poster, I had a test with goache- and found that it gave some of the effect I liked from the really thick pencil (blobby?) while also works with ink. The way I had developed the pictures (the best ones were bold & simple) I decided worked best with minimal tone- mostly block grey. I also found planning layout quite hard- I tried planning on A4 but just couldn't visualise it- and work out things would fit together; so I did a full scale plan. Throughout the execution of the final poster I felt like I should have spent more time planning layout and design of the actual poster- I didn't spend so much time planning layout as I was doing lots of testing in sketchbook. In the end I thought the work was ok- but I wasn't overly keen on it.

On a side note I realise that I need to do more blogging as it happens- not looking back- maybe need to keep a journal and regurgitate in on here- a little bit, more often.