Mars Poster With Process

Simple Mars Poster

For this next poster in my series of space posters I new I wanted to make it simultaneous and relocatable to my previous design. This is why they have the same tital font as well as the same size border and panelling. The theam for this poster as well as the selling point of this travel poster is that Mars is a explores planet that you can bring your kids and have an out of this world camping like expiration. This holiday from my company is meant for more of the masculine family trippers. This idea came from my research as I found that Mars has the biggest volcanoes in the solar system that we know of as. This fact triggered my idea of a wild camping and survival exporting adventure that will be planned out and completely safe that the company would of created but to the family will be out of this world. 

This first screenshot is very self explanatory as I did the same as my last poster creating a new layer for the texture and placing down the texture file and putting it to 30%, to save time I copy and pasted it on this layer from my last poster document as i wanted it to be the same anyway.  

This next shot show a new layer that I created and placed on top of the last. This layer was to find the coloured that the base will be. I new that I wanted a orange colour as the planet is know for being a dark orange to red colour and having them colour in this poster would help bring relations easier.      

I new that the next step was going to be putting the attraction on the poster. This as I already explained was going to be centred around camping and exploring in a volcano dessert planet, this is why I created a new layer for the volcanoes and rocky mountains. As you can see in this screenshot I had already played around with creating the rock cray-tors. I did this by using the pen tool. This tool can create curves but also leaves sharp state lines, this was the look I was going for as I wanted a type of harsh cartoon look. I really liked how these came out as there is a kind of retro feel to me which helps me with the retro vibe. The main focus of this layer was going to be a big volcano which I wanted some help with as I could get it quite right so I downloaded an image from google and used it as a guide line for my main volcano. This really helped me with the right structure for the volcano.

Once I had ranged my volcano landscape how I liked it I needed to make the volcano more in your face, so to do this I wanted the volcano to have fire and steam. To do this I used the same techniques as the pools in my last poster. This was done with the ellipsis tool and making them gray and turning down the transparency. This was then layered behind the flames I created so I looked like it was from the volcano. 

In this screenshot you can see the me placing the smoke were I wonted it. In this shot you can also see that I added in more detailers onto the rocks and volcanos. I also created a new smaller more rounded volcano that I placed behind my main volcano. Once the fire and smoke was done all i had left to do on this layer was make sure I was happy with all the placements and sizing then lock it so it cant be moved by accident. 

The next layer that I added was named mars, this was because I was adding in the planet that is being advertised. As I did with the last poster I had already made the planet that I was happy with and wanted to use the mars I used in my joint poster. I copied and pasted this from the original document. Then I re-sized it making sure to hold down shift so that the circle stayed perfect. this was then locked in.

Now that all of the objects were placed i just needed to add in the text, this was when I added in the titel. I made sure to make the font the same as well as the stroke and letter size. This was very important to me as I wanted these to be recognisable between my posters. The reason for the blue colouring was because as I discovered when making my last poster is that orange and blue are contrasting colours which helps the titel stand out which is my goal. That is why I went with blue for this posters titel colour. I then placed this central to the planet and locked in this layer to moved onto the next step.  

At this point there was only small details to add in, one of these were the logo which I did in this screenshot. This is very easy as it all i had to do was copy and past it into a new layer on my poster document and place it into the bottom left corner. The reason I place it here was because thats the same place I put it in my last poster and once again I want my posters to have similarities so it looks like they are from the same company and I feel like having the logo in the same place is important to that as it represents the company overall. 
   

Then finally all that was left to do was add in the smaller text that helps sell the trip. As I said in the intro I wanted to make this trip a family based trip that involved camping and survival skills that would be pre plain so that it was safe for young children and adults. This is why I spoke of camping and exploring in my pull slogans. This will grab the attention of thoughts who do enjoy camping and exploring which means they would most likely look more into the poster and travel options to see if they would be interested in the trip. This is important as its necessary for a campaign poster. When I was happy with the message I was sending with the slogans I put it into the same font once again that I used for the titel, once again this helps with the posters looking like a set that a company have sent out. Then when I was happy with the placing I locked it gave my poster another look to make sure i was happy with all of my layers, when I was I saved the file then exported it into a jpeg file so that I can display my final work. 

Overall I was really happy how this came out and was happy that I went for the more simple look. This poster to me was easy to tell that it was in a promotional package with the Uranus poster and I am happy with how they fit the theme to be retro but at the same time promoting holidays on far away planets. I will be using the same layout and overall theme for my next poster as well so hopefully that turns out just as good as this one.

       

                

Uranus Poster With Process

Uranus Landscape Poster (More Detailed)

Simple Uranus Poster 

When looking into other planet poster in my research I found that there was more detailed posters that have created a landscape of what they believe the planet would look like and I also found posters that were much more simple to look at as they displayed an image of the planet but around it was more simple, it wasn't a world landscape. I really liked both of the posters and how they both looked and I couldn't decide what one i liked best for my posters, this is why I decided to make two posters of my interpretation of Uranus. This is what i went on to do as you can see above I have showed you them. 

First I will look into the more detailed landscape poster. This to me was a fail as i really do not like it I hate the overall look but I did still use some skills. The vision I had in mine when wanting to create this was a rock pool filled with diamonds. This idea came from my research. When I was looking up this planet I wanted to find out something that was interesting and would help me generate a idea, I found out that it is thought that because of the gases in the actomfer there could lead to diamond oceans on uranus, this gave me the idea to sell that as a marketing ploy to bring people to the planet. This is why on the cream coloured surface there are faded out diamonds as this is ment to represt the diamond pools. I decided that using low polly art to create the cave and pool was a good idea as it brings lots of three demential shapes into the poster but I believe this is what throws it off as to me as it doesn't look like its retro at all which is part of the task as well. 

This screenshot shows my first pease of progression. I wont explain in full how I did this as its the same way I created my low polly art before which i explained all on my blog.

The next screenshot shows the rest of the low poly art finished as the pool is now done to. This was very time consuming but simple to do as i new what i was doing. 

What I was doing here was creating a diamond that i would copy and paste into my working document. I made sure that all of the triangles that made up the diamond were filled with the black to white gradient. This created more dimension in the 2D shape.

  

In this screenshot you can see that i have mow placed my diamonds into the pool in my poster. I did this by copying and pasting the diamond and re-sizing them and finding a place to put them. Once I was happy with the placement I would change the transparency down to whatever I tough looked best, these usually ranged from 50% - 90%. 

One of the last step was to add text and the tital. I didn't really like this, I think that I could of come up with a better font if I looked for longer. The text in black is ment to be possessive text meaning that its possessing the user to go to this destination.

The last step was to put my logo that i created for this company to go into the poster, I chose to place this into the top right corner as if i put it in the bottom corners it would of covered up the diamonds. 

   

Overall, I have come to the conclusion that I didn't like the way this came out as the text didn't really work in my opinion and the low poly base didn't work for me as i cant feel the retro vibe that is needed for this project.    

The first step in making the simple version of the uranus poster is by placing down the texture bored that helps bring a more retro vibe. I also used this in my pluto poster when I was doing research. This was my first layer which and I set the transparency to 30% so it wouldn't be as prominent. 

What I did next was create another new layer which would become my bace. This was for my poster to stand out on. I created this by selecting the rectangular tool and creating a shape that left a border showing the previous layer. I colorer this a light pail blue as the planet is blue so I wanted the bace to be according. Then I locked the layer.  

Now that the bace was done I went on to create a image to show of my diamond ocean, this was the idea I still wanted to use as a marketing ploy but wanted to display it better so I started to create a pool from a birds eyes view. What I did to star to create the pool was open up another layer and selected the ellipses tool and started creating circle after circle making a big blob like you can see in the screenshot to the right. When I was happy with the shape of the blob I would select all and select the pathfinder tab and click on the divide button, what this dose is make the whole area you selected one object when you click on it. When I click on the blob now it selects all of the circles. Once I made three different sized shapes and made them all into one shape I messed around with the colure till it looked like a pool colure, but remembering that what ever colour you chose it will be lighten up when you set the transparency down. I set all the blobs to different transparencies to create diminution when they would be layered. All that was left to do was start to place the pool shaped blobs on top of each other so that they could create a pool like I wanted. This was a whole new layer.

What I new I wanted to do next was add the diamonds to the pool, but I didn't want to use the black and white diamond I use in the last poster as they were to harsh when contrasting on top of the colour of the pool, so I created another diamond with my own white to light blue gradient so it still had dimension but would blend into the pool which is more realistic.  

In this next step I copied and pasted (command C, command V) my blue diamond into my poster document. I made sure that they were pasted onto a new layer that was just for the diamonds. When the diamonds were pasted into this document I would re-sized them holding down shift so they didn't go out of shape as well as changing the transparency of them verifying from 90% to even being 50% this created a more natural look of them at different levels of the pool/ocean. Once I was happy with the look of the diamonds as I didn't want to overcrowd the image with them I locked the layer and moved onto the next task. 

After creating a new layer for the larger piece of text I selected the type tool, I selected the standard setting as I wanted to type on a state line. I typed out "enjoy the relaxing pools whilst reaping the benefits" this is a statement that I thought would engage spa loving customers who would be interested in looking into the benefits that diamond infused water could have. This holiday designation would be for a more relaxing holiday and that is why Im selling it that way. The front I went with was called OCR A Std this font is what i was looking for as it has a simple feel which works for the future as well as links to a retro feel as it resembles type writing styles. In this screenshot the text colour is orange but I later change it to a black. 

Then I went on to adding the planet I was advertising on this poster which was uranus. I didn't create a new picture for this as I already had made it on my joint travel poster which I made as a over all destination poster to show where the company travels to. This meant that I created another new layer and copied and pasted my planet in from my other saved document. Once again I used the shift key to re-size the planet as well as slightly rotating it till I felt happy with the way it looked. As I was looking at it I though it look a bit plane so I added in some curved lines on the left side of the planet, I did this with the arc tool when I was happy with that I finally locked this layer and though about what was left to do. 

This next step wasn't very hard as I new I had to add in a title that showed of what this poster was advertising (uranus). I added in a new layer as well as selecting the same type tool that I used for the longer box of text. This wasn't as long of a process as I new exactly what I needed to write as well as the font to use as I was using the same as the other text on the poster and wanted the poster to be simultaneous. I didn't want to use a black tone for this title as I wanted it to stand out and catch the users eye, this is why I went with a orange as it is a contrasting colour of the background colour blue. I also made the stroke panel bigger with it being an eight which let me create a slightly darker tone of orange which made the name stand out even more which I really like and decided to keep for the rest of my posters to they all feel linked.

All that was left to do then was placing in the logo of the company. I quickly created the last layer for this and pasted in my logo that I created earlier. I used this one as it was my personal favourite. I sized it down and place it into the left bottom corner and then went on to make all the layer locked so that nothing could be displaced. This was then the last step in making this poster and i saved and exported this file into a jpeg file.

Overall, I think that this poster is way more fitting for my style as well as fitting to the retro space feel, like I said this is more my style as I love simplicity and that is what I am getting from this design as its not to in your face but is still applying to look at. I will be creating the rest of my posters like this with the same style but with themes more fitting to them destinations.   

  

Logo Option Four - All Planets With Name Logo

Logo Option Three - Name Solo Logo

Logo Option Two - Mars Astronaut

Logo Option One- Saturn

This first design was inspired just by the planet saturn. This idea came to me when thinking that one of the trips out of the this planet could be saturn. 

Travel poster- The Destinations

This poster is my first official poster idea which will be to show my destinations that are available to get to. This isn't my final copy of this poster as i need to make it look more retro. The five planets that I have recreated in illustrator are Earth, Mars, Saturn, Uranus and the pink to purple planets is a planet called GJ 504b this is a from the solar analog 59 Virginis. This is a very unknown planet but i chose it because I wanted something different for my travel company to sell. I used lots of different techniques to create this over all poster as I made each planet individually.

The first thing I did was use the ellipse tool to create my round planet, then I used the shift key to make sure it was an evan perfect circle.  

Next I filled the circle in with my pink to purple gradient. i had already made this from my previous attempt at this planet, so all i had to do was used the eyedropper tool (i). 

What I did next was really the main step, I selected my circle and used the alt and L keys whiled holding them I dragged my shape up to the top so that it was only covering the top part of the circle. When i let go of the shape it created another one of my circles where i had dragged it to. i then coloured this new circle plain black.  

         

After turning the new circle black I turned the opacity down to 10%. This is very important.

This step is were the layers come out. What i am doing in this screenshot is dragging my original black circle down using the same alt and L keys to make sure they are the exact same. This has to be repeated over and over all the way down the circle grabbing each new circle each time, keep doing this till you have covered the whole shape. 

Then using the selection tool click and drag around the whole shape so you are getting all the circles you have made. 

 

Once all of your work is selected you need to click on the side bar and find the pathfinder tab, when I had found it and click on it i then had to find and select the divide button. 

With the whole shape still selected I right click on the shape so the drop down bar appeared. I then pressed the ungroup button this is very important so that we can make my planet one whole circle.   

This next step is the last as all there is left to do is to select as much as I can of the black circles around my planet and delete them. I find that selecting them with the selection tool and clicking and dragging around my shape dose this the best. 

I made sure that I selected all of the smaller parts around the edge of my planet. This is the last step in how I made my GJ 504b planet. 

Then finally I was finished and could rearrange planets placement.  

The next planet that I wanted to make was mars. I had an idea what the planet would still be realistic but I wanted it to have a cartoon look to it as well so that`s what I did. The first step to create this planet was to make a circle with the ellipse tool. I coloured this a orange so that it would be lined to mars.
     

What I did next was start to add in texture to the planet as mars has lots of colour sand as well as tall boulders and mountens. I used the pen tool to create shapes for the boulders then coloured them a darker tone of the orange shade. After I made the bigger bolder I used the ellipses tool to create smaller round rocks so that there would be different shapes to show of the different types of rockets that can be formed. Then I used the pen tool to create a light shadow. I used transparency settings to dull the colour down so I created a better shadow.        

The next step was to add in more dimension on the rocks. I did this by zooming in on the circle rocks so that I could create the small half crescent that would help with the dimensions.   

The last step that I did was caring on with making rock type shapes with different tones of orange. I played around with the transparency of the shapes in till I was happy with the overall look.    

Next I wanted to create the planet Uranus so I started with the ellipse tool and created a even circle. I then coloured it  in a light blue.    

Then to add in the details I used the pen tool again to create my shapes to help detail. I chose to create curve lines that variety in colour and opacity.  

Next I added in the ring that loops around the planet. To do this I used the same steps that I used for my GJ-504-b design. What I mean by this is that I used the pathfinder tool so that when I put the ring down where I wanted it the sections separated and I could take out the part of the ring that I didn't want to see as it should be behind.  

Lastly I added in some final detailed with the pen tool making sure there is some more curvy lines that look like the go around the whole planet.

These screenshot show how I made the ring that goes around the planet. This was made with the ellipses tool. After I was happy with the placement I made the fill section of the shape with the no fill and the colour of the stroke with the colour you want it. Then I made the stroke thicker so that the ring can stand out.  

The next planet I made was earth as earth is the planet that the customers are coming from. Once again I made the base of the planet by using the ellipse tool and colouring it in a blue colour.       

Lastly I used the pen tool to create the earths continents. I used images from google to help me get a better though on the shapes of the continents. I used two tones of green to show that the lighting would be lighter on middle and darker on the edges of the planet.