The final poster I came up with for the brief of poetic migration was the one shown below:
I stuck to my strengths when creating this poster and focused a lot on the drawing aspect. I illustrated the same man (see sketchbook), both standing and well, then collapsed on the floor to represent how fast the lives of refugees can change. I chose this idea from a series of ones primarily because of its simplicity and potency; it requires little explanation and tells this crisis how it is. I definitely feel that I could have spent more time on fine-tuning the typed aspect of this poster as the standard, black variety of font in this image is rather bland and not as effective as other variations. If given more time then I could have put deeper thought into it, but for the majority of this task my concentration was spent on drawing the characters.
I completed the migrant using pencil and watercolour and based my perceptions upon the images of refugees I had seen on the news. I drew the initial images in coloured pencil and filled them in with a pale wash as a base before filling the colours in with a more intense and opaque variation which I then layered up several times to create shadows and highlights. I the proceeded to scan this and fit it in place of the two 'i's' in 'Migration which I did on Adobe Photoshop by scaling the image down and removing any dirt that surrounded the scans.
I could have spent less time on the watercolours as when I made the images smaller, not a great amount of the detail was visible which meant that I could have spent longer on bringing the elements together on Illustrator as well as Photoshop. I find the colours to be rather bland to as the muted brown colours don't do much to catch the public's attention, although arguably the image of a dead man is likely to.
If I chose the graphic design pathway then working on my typographic and presentation skills is a must, because although I've proven that I can draw, that's certainly not the essence of graphic design.
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