Personal Project Review: Homecoming 2015

   This job was to make a poster design that captured the feel of the book "Night circus". The poster needed to be elegant and mysterious. My Process consisted of first sketching out about 20 well thought out sketches. I then went on to making my first version of the poster. There were still a lot of problems with this. First off the font didn't read well and it didn't really match with each other. Next I needed to ground the dancing girl.












What I learned from this project is that the first idea is never really the best version. I thought my poster looked great in this version but in the end I was able to really tie it all together. Also with this project I was able to get readjusted to using Illustrator. I was more familiar with Photoshop but with this project I feel like I really got comfortable with the software and the key shortcuts.
   If I had more time to fix up and change this project I would probably go back in and get rid of small errors like the white marks left by the flowers because if you look closely you can see them.

    Things I would do the same is follow the flowery elegant style using people. I feel like adding the girl in the center really brings out the beauty.
Some experiences I would draw into this project would probably coming up with more unique ideas that are all my own. Overall though I am very happy with the final project. It was selected out of the class to be the 2015 homecoming poster so that makes me happy. I hope I can do more good work like this again with my next project!



























Here is my finished product for the Homecoming 2015 poster and tickets.