Final Piece - Photoshop Process

I decided that I was going to do a final piece inspired by poster designers I've researched, trying to link them to a suitable theme I wanted to be portrayed from my own poster for the Fleet Foxes. To start my final peice I drew up drafts of what i could create, thinking of key lyrics i wanted to focus on. I thought about the woods frequently mentioned as well as the blue mountains, incorporating them into the drafting process. I then selected the mountain peice to further develop into my final peice.

I started to draw out my draft with an HB pencil on card. When drawing it out I altered some parts from the draft as i thought the layout didn't work as well as it could of. I placed a plane and banner instead of just a banner (which joined the two mountains) as i thought it was too similar to a previous designer. Also it helped introduce more contrast into the piece.

I decided that I was also going to add text into the peice by incorporating clouds into the design. To create a contrast with the main typeface i chose on the banner (sans serif front with a thin weight), i trialed a serifed font in the clouds, with a similar weight.

Here is a comparison between the two before i added the last touches to my own emulation.

Here is my final drawn out version.

I then did the same process I did for the copy and scanned it into photoshop, changing the levels and then going onto 'image', 'adjustments' and 'threshold' to get a harsh colour difference so I could easily remove the white with the magic wand tool.

I added colour gradually into the piece. 

I then altered the hue of some colours to get a better scheme, portraying the band well.

I tried to focus on a neutral colour scheme similar to Jay Ryan's work so, using the copy, I selected the colours used in his piece with the eyedropper tool and painted them in to different sections. This then allowed me to change the hue of the colours when i placed them onto my final piece. This colour choice helped make the poster have a neutral feel, but still using prominent colours to create more contrast.

After altering and selecting a colour scheme, I used it within my final piece.

I decided when adding in the colours that there wasn't enough contrast in the piece, making it look too monochromatic for what I wanted. I changed the colouring of the sign and flag so that it would be able to stand out from the page, with a contrasting orange. This change helped turn the piece into a subtle contrasting colour scheme.

Also I decided to add tone into the mountains, adding more depth into the piece, using the faded paint brush tool with a darker version of the mountain colour.

Using the lasso tool I then selected some of the clouds and using 'cmd'+'c' to copy the image and then 'cmd'+'v' to paste them. I removed the text and then added them into the sky as I thought it looked too bare.

When i had completed my own colour scheme, it was time to try and change it into a 3 colour schemed piece, so i could create 3 coloured print. I first separated the white from the piece as i wouldn't need it because the white would be represented from the paper in the background.

Then to help me get the fading colour within the mountains i used the 'colour Halftone' option.

I then grouped together the colours of the Lilly pads, trees and banners so that when layered together different colours would be shown on the print, giving the impression there were more inks used. I also decided to use the 'Pointillize' option so another dimension would be included into my final peice.

After altering the colour scheme I had limited the choices down to 3 layers. 

I then used the threshold option to make the colours black on all my layers so i could print them off easily.

Here are the 3 different layers.

I then decided to trial out what it would look like if all my layers were combined under one colour.

I then experimented with all the layers being an orange colour, which worked well but I still wanted to create my screen print.