Update #3: Just posted the original sketch for people to see where I started and where I wound up. Please Update #2 for the finished poster. Time to go print, hopefully it doesn't look like complete crap. Spent two much time, but I think it came out good. Still a little disgruntled I couldn't get the Cassandre effect in full, but then again - this project wasn't meant to copy someone's style. I incorporated what I liked and had to move and make do with I could. I'm just happy I was able to create a feel that compliments my original intention. Hope everyone else's projects are working out!!! Good luck, especially for the stragglers. Keep on your shit! Ha.
Update #2: FINISHED!
Well, I had to ditch the whole Cassandre airbrush effect. I spent too much this morning (four hours) trying to play with it, messing around with brushes with the dissolve blending effect and using layer masks as stencils. Honestly - it just looked like shit. My digital painting skills need major touching up, I suppose. It was truly an aggravating experience.
So I wound up taking a break around noon and took photographs of concrete and wood textures around my block after having playing stock textures I found yesterday for my Graphic Design II IDEAL WOMAN poster.
I enjoy how this looks a lot more and bears much more resemblance to the lifestyle I grew up around. It's still Cassandre like in spirit - in terms of graphic style, layout and text obviously - but I think these textures help make the piece my own and convey the concrete jungle better of West Palm Beach. Basically, how it is to live and die in South Florida: there's no way out. I'm advertising a life style that many youngsters in South Florida cater to. Florida's a conservative state that harbors guns and embraces violence (both West Palm Beach and Miami have high murder rates). So hopefully you guys like it.
Update #1: Main image and text done in Illustrator, will try the Cassandre effect style in Photoshop.
Yeah, so I sorta shifted focus from focusing on Glock. Instead I wanted to highlight the culture of many youth in South Florida - this "live fast, die young" mentality that costed the lives of many of my friends. All the type came from hooks of songs that further endorse this type of reckless living of pushing one's self to the limits (gang violence, drugs, car wrecks, etc.).
As far as the poster, I got all the elements I needed and the basic palette done. Changed the proportions and alignment of the center figure to match the designs of Cassandre with a gangster twist. Hopefully later on today I can give the piece that Cassandre-airbrush feel to further authenticate the image.
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