My concert poster is based on the Finnish band Apocalyptica, which started in the 1990s. Apocolyptica is a cello quartet that mainly started off as a Metallica tribute brand before focusing on more of a classical style music.
This band fits my enjoyment of music played by string instruments, as the genre of music this band plays is Classical, mainly a neoclassical metal style. In their pieces, they mainly play the Cello and sometimes combine with percussion instruments such as the drums and the cymbals.
The process of creating this poster started off with finding some inspiration online of the 1990s themed graphic design, and the existing Apocalyptica posters their style from visiting their website. I noticed that the most important elements I should include are the four band members along with the cello, along with their desaturated and earthy blue and brown colors to give it a more ancient feel. When creating my illustration in Adobe Illustrator, something I wanted to try out was drawing the cello as if you were to look at it from the bottom to give some perspective. Drawing this was a lot harder than I thought, because I had to visualize in my head what the instrument is supposed to look like in a different perspective, so something that helped me was tracing the general shape of a cello from an online image, and then using the perspective warp tool to angle it. For the band members, I used the image trace tool in Illustrator to turn the photo of the band members into a graphic, and made them stand on the cello that I drew. Finally, for the background, I created a gradient mesh of different shades of desaturated blue so that it is not one solid color, and also added a brick pattern to the background. Upon finishing this project, I learned how to draw complex objects with perspective, and if there was anything I would change, it would be exploring more design techniques to fit the aesthetic of the respective era of music.
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