Posters for Del Mar College

More blue texture from Mr. Hester, plus some vector images (perfect for manipulation because they stay crisp and clean when you size up) from dezignus.com. They are royalty free, if you mention where you got them!

The New People and Composition Symposium

I'm excited about all the blues that are happening in this and the next poster. I have to give credit where credit is due. I found a site with some royalty free grunge textures created by Darren Hester. I've manipulated one of his, together with some of my own images to create the background.

Go to grungetextures.com to find some of your own.

A Night of Symphonies

Try to guess what texture I used in the background. Here's a hint: it's something you use at least once a week. Generally, I like these posters in a vertical format, but I couldn't resist a landscape layout since the title of the poster is A "Night" of Symphonies. I wanted to promote the physical earthiness (is that a word?) of the whole thing, hence the landscape view.

Fall Classic

Three layers in the background make for a big file! I found a great site with free textures. I'm a crazed woman when it comes to textures. Three fonts too. Myriad Pro, Kunstler Script and ...well, I can't remember the third. I'll have to look it up before I send it to the printer.

Sketches

I was asked recently to provide sketches for a magazine client. I'm competing for a monthly comic strip. I have to admit that trying to put the required information into a square roughly 3"x 3" was a DAUNTING task, akin to writing good children's literature. I did 6 panels and this one is my favorite.

Caribbean Rite

I love the way this poster came together. For the background I began with an image I had saved on my computer just waiting for the right application. I duplicated it so I had two of them, flopped one of the duplicates and put it on top of the other. I moved them around until I began to see a "face" come together in a very subtle way. On top of that I placed another image which I hope the viewer will recognize - but not too quickly. All of these layers have a bit of transparency so that texture from each layer adds to the final version. Then the whole thing gets flattened into one finished background.

Finding the right font is always fun. I have used two, Blackadder and Tw Cen MT Condensed -one serif and one sans serif to compliment each other. The color for the fonts are "picked" out of the background.

It's always a challenge to include all of the text that Darrell asks for without destroying the background underneath, but I think it works here.

Colored Up

I hope this isn't too colorful for you all. Let me know. I have the other files ready to send.