Poster Progress

Made these roughs of potential compositions for my poster today, I'm pretty enthusiastic about them all but I think my favourites are the first two and the last one. These mock ups have made me really think about what I want to convey in this poster, at first I was playing with the idea of self-discovery and exploration as I think those two words sum up the overall feeling this years had for me. I like the torch light as a metaphor for discovering things about my practise and being surprised, and I also like the element of this we can see in the last design with the boat. 

Somehow in the middle of the roughs I lost a bit of motivation and started making a lot of images of the characters in water, which I like as a symbol but they ended up making the central human character look a little bit lost and scared, and although that is something I've felt a lot this year I don't want it to be the feeling that defines my practise in my first year, I want the outcome to feel triumphant and brave (how I feel now). This is why I'm tempted to go with the last idea with the boat because I like the strong composition of all the characters kind of intertwined and supporting each other rather than dragging each other down like in some of the other roughs.

Tomorrow I'm going to carry on roughing the idea further whilst playing with a bit more character design and using some materials to get an idea of what I might use for the final piece. I'm feeling really enthusiastic about this project though which is helping me power through it.