I'm not being fussy at this point.
I'm just trying to get a general sense of the composition.
This one, since it's so wild in terms of its composition,
try something really dramatic with the color.
These markers are really great for coloring in large areas.
There you go, just some basic ideas of thinking about that first exercise we did where we're
trying to make three colors look like two and how that might be used in a compositional
sense with some typography.
Very, very, very rough.
And right now I like this one and this
one definitely the best.
What I'm going for is just going back to that lesson of trying to make
three colors look like two,
getting a general sense of what the compositional possibilities are,
how to work with that image with typography.
Again, very, very rough at this point.
I'll go on to the second set of compositions and do the same thing.
I think about
color in a very,
very general sense and trying to replicate the idea of the illusion of transparency.
I'm doing a little bit of blending with them but not very much.
Here I actually will do a little blending
because this is transparency.
The markers can definitely simulate
some of that color interaction.
And you can use the markers in a way where they blend together
to mix the colors.
Again, I'll try something a little bit different with a darker background.
Now the typography may not be black in the end
but I'm just going to put it in with black right now
just as a placeholder.
You know, the main things you're seeing here are the shapes
and the approximate placements of type
and the basic ideas of the color.
I think on this one I'm going to try doing a gradient in the background.
This is a great opportunity just to play with color.
You can't really do much harm with this.
So don't be afraid to experiment.
Sometimes people get very obsessed with having the exact color marker.
And it's really not that important unless you're really making a critical mock-up or
testing something where the color is really super critical.
But in this case,
we're just really going for some very rough ideas.
In this last sketch,
just because I haven't done it yet,
I'm going to try to overlap the
typography with the shapes.
OK.
I have some nice sketches,
some good color distributions.
I actually like this one with the red and the green quite nice.
This is also really beautiful.
I might try this.
And the first page too.
Some really good ideas here.
Something I can try with different kinds of colors.
And doing a poster like this,
I might do 10 to 20 sketches total.
Variations on these.
I might take one of these and develop even further in sketch form.
I usually do 10 to 20 sketches for a poster assignment like this.
In this case, I'm just doing these eight.
And we definitely have enough here to go to the computer and start working.
In this lesson, I briefed you on the final project.
I introduced you to the Universal Traveler and talked a little bit about the creative process.
And we looked at the idea of sketching and the importance of coming up with alternative design concepts.
In the next lesson,
you'll begin working on your final project,
the exhibition poster.