Finished Poster

What works?

• I am in love with the colour scheme - soft colours work perfectly with them image and the reddy pink against a more purple pink works really nicely. It is crazy how much difference tweaking the colours made to the whole image - I guess this is because it is quite simple and graphic. 
• I also think that having a steeper perspective made worlds of difference to the image because there is less going on/ each of the components are much bolder. I like that there is only a couple of each object. It also meat that I was able to bring forward my favourite part (skull/ plant) and fill almost half my image to them.  
• I also think that I stuck to my concept well and I definitely arrange the objects well to represent there function - the chaos at the back/ the bad - drinking skull/ inability to look after anything (plastic pot plant) then the crystal pyramid sucking up the bad - under which is order/ the good - guardian angel. Then the teddy is just there as a constant comfort (in the middle ground). I like that I kept it simple by just playing with object arrangement rather than literally illustrating the function of each object and that to anyone else it is weird/ nonsensical. This sums up the way that I think perfectly. However, I do wish that I could have somehow made my interest in object research more directly clear in the image. This is something that I really struggled with from the start. 

What could I have done differently?

• I was a mug and designed this in A4 when it is an A2 poster. It didn't even cross my mind until I had already queued for three hours for the print room drop in. Thankfully because it is mainly block colour it doesn't look too pixelated but this is definitely something I need to be more aware of in the future. Had I been more organised and not left printing to the last day I definitely could have resolved this. 
• Even though I added the pink strip at the bottom I still think that the angels look slightly detached from the rest of the image. I do think that the pink stripe is interesting because it puts the rest of the landscape into perspective (and the pyramid would have looked out of place without it) but I could have definitely experimented more with how I placed the angels.

I definitely want to play around with digital collage now that I have finally got to grips with photoshop - I love its simple, bold aesthetic. Creating a collage and working from it is also a really good way of working for me because its quick and enables me to visualise my image. It also forced me to think about composition, which is something which I definitely haven't payed enough attention to in past work.