Type Choices

I chose to write my typefaces in some of the finalised name ideas from my original spider diagram of brand names, which would help me vision what it could potentially look like on my makeup product and poster. The finalised names are, El Volar, Feather, Flying and Fly.

The huge range of typefaces of makeup and cosmetic products that I found and hoped could help influence and inspire me when I designed might.

The various typefaces I found on makeup products.

Further Experiments of Potato Printing

From the starting point of the original feather potato prints, when the paint was dry I scanned them in onto photoshop and changed the threshold to make the darks fully black and the lights fully white, after I did that I took away the white background so I was only left with the black feathers and then on a separate layer under neither the black feathers I added a white background so that the feather were away from the background and I could move them individually around more easily. In the above screenshot you can see I have began to select individual feathers and move them around to rearrange, replace and resize them.

Beginning to add a choice of colour to my digitalised potato prints.

The screenshot above shows me moving the individual feathers around and changing the sizes. 

A simple complete design of my feather potato prints.

Triangle Potato Print Development.

Above the screenshots show me selecting some of the triangles at printed poorly onto the paper and didn't show up very well when I change the threshold, because I this I chose to not use them and delete them.

The screenshots above show the selection, movement and grouping of the potato prints.

After grouping the triangles and adding more by Duplicating Layers I wanted to add colour to the triangles so I used a colour scheme to do so, above is the colour scheme or choices I used.

The screen shot shows some other the development with the layout of the triangles and the selection of colours.

The finished triangle potato print development, I like how the triangles are grouped and gradually get smaller and fade away. I would potentially like to use some of the potato printing results for my final piece/s  but I would have to think more about how they may work or fit in, maybe I could use them on the actual make up product as the design wrap.

Experiments with Potato Printing

Above are all the step by step stages of my potato printing experiment.

Results of Potato Printing 1 - Feathers

Results of Potato Printing 2 - Kisses

Results of Potato Printing 3 - Triangles

On my Pinterest board - Inspiration, when I looked back at it I realised that I had Pinned lots of prints and different techniques of prints so I decided that I would like to try having a go a printing for myself, with little utensils or tools I decided to use that basis potato for printing, I was insure about how this might work or be further  developed but I thought it would be an interesting experiment to try.

Make Up Poster Analysis

My Make Up Poster Scamps

Doing these scamps of my own makeup poster ideas of layout felt like I was getting a better sense of direction for the brand as whole, I also felt that creating these scamps was really useful for developing and coming closer to my final piece and I can imagine puling elements from some of my scamps and potentially see them used on my final piece/s. It is exciting because it is the first time I have really seen the brand, makeup and the poster come together in the same place. I varied the different style and layouts to give me a wide range of directions I could take my poster in.

Emulation

I used some of my subject matter ideas as the basis for my emulation, above you can see the start of the emulation on a rose. Even when it is incomplete or half done thing this looks very unique and I did consider leaving it at this stage but I choose to carry on until it was finished.

Triangle area selection using the Polygonal Lasso Tool.

                                    FLAWS                                     PERFECTION

Finished Emulation.

The left image of the feather is one I found on Pinterest and you can find it of my Pinterest board 'Inspiration' it was one of the first style of graphic design that really caught my eye in this unit. I wanted to recreate this feather using the emulation style and elaborating from the basic template of the original. On the right is the emulation, I choose use light colours like an angle feather, I like the mix of colours but maybe they are slightly to light because some you can't see against the white background.

Another emulation using a Subject matter idea and my own photograph.

I left it half finished so you could see the difference, contrast and compare it in on piece.