Above is my postcard for Black History Month this October.
I took the components of a new season beginning along with skin tones and created this graphic with those things in mind.
I had a hunt in the garden to find a leaf that would be suitable and came back inside with 3 possible ones. I still wasn't sure as to how I would be presenting the leaves and if I would be scanning all of them to layer up the images so I left them all on the radiator to dry out for about two days.
I began by taking he leaf and scanning it onto a memory stick before opening it in Adobe Photoshop. I found the dimensions of the postcard by scanning it onto an A6 piece of paper which gave the required Photoshop size. I liked the slight shadow and blur surrounding the leaf that was a result of a bad scan so cutting straight around the edge of the cushion would not be an option as it would remove this stylistic feature. I ended up using the rubber tool without a hard edge and going as close to the leaf as possible. After filling in the background white on a layer below the leaf, I changed the properties of the image to remove that little slither of off-white remaining around the edge and allowed the shadows to remain.
The overall effect is something simple but still able to convey the basics of black history month. I feel that by adding other elements the postcard would contain greater amounts of information and convey a deeper meaning, but the aesthetics of something like this are also pivotal. This ended up being a graphic that requires the viewer to look more than surface deep into it which would leave them wondering what a leaf has to do with this celebration of black culture. It has a lot of potential for development.
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