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13 PICK OUT DETAILS You’ve been building up paint textures under your original face tone layers. Now you can start to paste in v ...

CREATING THE LANDSCAPE ADD THE ROAD, MOUNTAIN AND DINER 14 DEEPEN THE BACKGROUND Now the head is in a good place, you can start ...

22 NEED FOR SPEED To emphasise the sense of speed, add some line work. To create simple colour lines that follow the curve of th ...

GRAPHICS & WEB 146 Design arresting posters Grab your viewer's attention and keep it 154 Create classic type Learn how to cr ...

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DESIGN ARRESTING YOU’VE GOT TO GRAB YOUR VIEWER’S ATTENTION AND SQUEEZE UNTIL THEY CAN’T LET GO. BUT POSTER DESIGN CAN BE FUN TO ...

P osters are everywhere. They feature a particular juxtaposition of word and image (though it needn’t contain both) that somehow ...

Posters are an ancient artform but their golden age began in the 1800s. Like no other, artist Jules Cheret can be considered the ...

bright with type that was a welcome scream. I fell for his work pretty hard, as evidenced by my early attempts at gigpostery in ...

For Ferguson, there are two main factors when it comes to poster construction: “Number one, have a good idea. A poster needs to ...

“I always try to think roughly in triangles,” says Ferguson. “Think an upside-down pyramid. So the design draws the eye down to ...

Eye-catching, mood-evoking then, colour is also a way that a poster designer can make their individual style clear. Nyffeler lov ...

technology to do such art digitally has really come along. In the mid to late 90s people were seduced by the ease of doing thing ...

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LEARN HOW TO CREATE A RETRO CHALK TYPE EFFECT WITHOUT THE SKINCRAWLING SCRAPING CREATE CLASSIC TYPE A s we free-fall mercilessl ...

QUICK TIP All outlines in this tutorial are created using the chalk brushes in Adobe Illustrator. Unless you have a graphics tab ...

12 THIRD BANNER For the third banner, a more organic and laid-back approach is required in order to complement the first banner ...

DRAWN TOGETHER BRING TOGETHER THE FINISHING TOUCHES QUICK TIP Classic chalk typography is typically monochromatic. The problem w ...

QUICK TIP Whilst it’s important to make sure that the composition of your text is well constructed, spending too much time align ...

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