I decided to make a poster for Suspiria, which is an Italian horror film that is known for it's intense lighting techniques and color palette, so I tried to make color a big part of my poster. I used the pen tool, and the pencil tool for most of the basic shapes. I also used the swirl tool for the background and layered them. I used some paper textures, some ink wash textures, and some concrete texture to mirror the building.
Awesome use of point of view and color. This really gives a scary, vertigo-inducing feeling. The piece is so dimensional because of the composition and the black really makes your eye look at the entire page. I don't think that my eyes fall off the page at all. It looks great. The only thing that I might comment on is the text at the top. It's a little difficult to read.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy your use of the vibrant color palette and especially how all the colors make the piece very cohesive. The use of the swirl tool along with your textures work very well in creating the tone for your poster. The only thing I might play around with is the text at the top, I think the white over the busy background works but there might be a better way to work around it so that it doesn't get lost within the background!
ReplyDeleteExcellent use of subtle textures and a somewhat monochromatic color scheme. The flatness in this piece really works in your favor, and represents the stylistic choices of the film really well. Also, the white text of the title and subtitle cause them to really pop against the saturated background.
ReplyDeletethis is super cool. i can tell its a horror film right away just by your use of color and text (i actually like the hand done type in the sketch more that the finished result). i also think you have a great selection of textures throughout this piece. i also think you got a great perspective on the house. great job!!
ReplyDeleteYou definitely have the horror vibe going on in this one. Even your original sketch was detailed and awesome, and it's great to see all of those little things pop out in the final piece with your vivid use of color. Loving the unique palette too.
ReplyDeleteI love the vibrancy of the colors and how they contrast. I would change the font you used for the top of the poster or otherwise relocate it. I feel like you need a bigger margin on the bottom of the poster. And I kind of wish that the title was in perspective (bigger at the bottom and smaller at the top) as if it was creeping from the house itself.
ReplyDeleteFantastic job with color palette and imagery - it immediately tells me this is for horror film, and it meshes well together across the whole composition. I love the textures you used as well - I almost wish to see more of it on the house itself. There are some distracting tangents on the S in Suspiria with the pool of pink that would go back into and resize!
ReplyDeleteThe colors- oh man, the colors. One might normally argue the Haunted House imagery is done to death, but you breathed a whole new sort of life into it with that palette and crazy spiral in the background. It oozes with a style that seems straight out of a 70s head trip.
ReplyDeletePart of me wants to suggest muting the background somewhat to keep the house in the foreground, but at the same time that would detract from that "insane 70's grindhouse" vibe the poster is giving off. Ultimately it boils down to personal choice- you call, and well done!
I like the way that you use the texture on the roof and on the spinning wheel behind the house. You choose really nice fonts. I think that the front title can have work better if you made it in the same color as the bleeding blood.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, I really love this poster. It has that pulpy old-school-horror-with-bright-color-choices-feel that I really adore.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the more grungy letters (that's totally not a font, is it?) for the title and I don't feel that their design takes away from the readability. The spiral and the gold accent to it is a really nice choice and the textures fit in across the whole piece.
The only suggestion I could make is that the slug at the bottom seems a bit squished horizontally, but that's an easy fix for an otherwise really enjoyable piece.
love the colors and the title its really fits with the description of the movie. you might think about maybe moving text at the top or at least getting rid of the transparency it a little hard to read. great textures, too!
ReplyDeleteThis poster feels really successful in that it totally gives off a 70's horror movie vibe. The colors and text give off a really spooky vibe. The only thing that really gives me pause is the horizon line feels off somehow in relation to the house and the rest of the poster. Other than that though, good piece!
ReplyDeleteThis is really great. I think that the font you used at the top is fantastic -it definitely has that creepy vibe to it -- I'd even maybe put those two lines of text a bit closer to one another, but the font choice is really nice! I really think you did a great job with this poster overall - I think that the way you're using texture to make the building and the background have their own place in the piece works well because you've chosen colors that harmonize, but the value differences make it really easy to read. The other thing that's really nice is the subtle use of texture in this - I really love the way yo'ure using the drip/dirt textures and I think they really add to the piece and were a good choice. I wonder if there's a way to add a subtle texture to the black? Or is there one there already? I think that would help bring it all together - even if it's super subtle! The other thing that you could try is to see if you could try to use that compound path to put a texture in all of those purple windows? I love how the background pink has that subtle gradient-kind of look to it, and I think you could make the windows sort of have it as well --- which would be super cool!
ReplyDeleteThe last thing is that I think you did a great job with the text being off kilter and kind of twisted - I would even push it further! There's a tool under the edit menu where you can warp the text (I'll show it to you) that you could use to emphasize that twisting even more! Great job :)