She didn't like it!

Nathan emailed the director with the sample of the poster for Little Women. It turns out that it was not what the director was looking for. She wanted the poster to reflect the family feel of the musical as well as emphasize the Christmas holiday. She ultimately wanted to have the girls around a Christmas tree or something similar. She did however like the colors of the sample.

This was just my luck though. Finally, I had made something that would go into production, get printed, and ultimately placed around town and then it gets rejected. Nathan did tell me that this is when you have to separate yourself as an artist and just know that it's a job that you're performing for someone else with different tastes and preferences. He had a great point, and it motivated me to start working on a new poster.

After a while of looking at images of the Victorian era, Victorian Christmas, and Victorian fashion, I came across a REALLY interesting picture:







It was a picture of a Victorian Christmas. I - being the creative genius that I am - thought that if I manipulated this picture enough, I could get the director what she wanted.








:::::DRUM ROLL PLEASE::::::: After some tweaking and masterful Photoshop Skills I came up with this:



Hopefully the director will like it. If she does then the finished product should have the typography and details.

Little Leo

Although there was a bit of a hiatus I'm back at work with Lorem Ipsum. Right now I'm tackling the poster and production pieces for "Little Women". Nathan suggested I gather some images and fonts that I thought would be great together for a nice poster. I went on istockphoto.com and google images to search for just the right one.
After my search, I ended up having two concepts. One concept I had was to take two different images and mesh them in order to have one really interesting blend.
My first attempt was this:


The doll I thought was interesting and gave a good reference to "Little Women". The country scene I cropped and filtered on Photoshop with a brush stroke filter.

The only problem with this particular poster idea was that the background took attention away from the doll and everything looked similarly toned. I played around again with another image:



This image to me was amazing. It showed the great Victorian style of the dresses of that period along with a semi-love story (like the one Jo and Laurie shared). It used brilliant color and just spoke "Little Women" all around. I took it to photoshop. First I used the marquee tool to wrap the entire image. Then I moved the image so that you could only see half of the girl's face and the guy's arm (adding some mystery). Then I copied and pasted parts of the wood, warped it, and made it longer. The result was this:



This is the sample that Nathan will be giving the Quincy Musical Theatre so they can give him the go-ahead and we'll be able to add more.

Nathan also let me grab of choices of fonts that I thought would be great for the poster. Out of a list of 12 that I compiled, we both really like the Riesling font that appears on the poster. It was classy and really fit the flow of the poster.

Nathan and I worked on manipulating the font on illustrator, adding the squiggle on to the "n" and changing the size of the capital "L" and "W" so as to add interest. Now all we would have to do - once we get the ok - is to add the dates and information onto the poster.

As always it was a pleasure working with Nathan and I'm glad he allowed me to have so much control over the poster.