GJ-504-b Poster With Process

Simple GJ 504 b Poster

I left this poster till last as I always new I was going to do this planet but as you can probably tell there isn't really much information about this planet that was extremely exiting that would inspire a new idea for an activity so when I was looking at all my other posters that I had created I though about how they were quite masculine as racing, camping and exploring can be seen as quite masculine prone activity so I wanted to make a planet that could be seen as more feminine. This is why I came up with a planet that would be similar to New York but on another level. I wanted to create a planet that is like a new futuristic city that would be like no other city shopping trip out there. I new that I would be adding in pink and purple colours as the planet is pink and it also is more feminine colours to.

The first step like always was to add the texture bored with it 30% transparent. I made sure to make this its once layer.

The next step that did was add in the bace, this bace was the same size as all of the rest of my posters. I made this a blue gradient like a night sky. I did this as I new that I wanted to create city skyline with the night sky in the background but I new that I wanted to have the city have way up the posters so I only bothered to fade the top half of the gradient. The gradient is also vertical which I did with the gradient tool making it like a sky would be. This look every bold at first but i new that it would be covered up a lot by the bottom design.  

I created a new layer for the city skyline which I new exactly how I wanted it so I went straight into creating my art deco inspired buildings. The building that I created weren't meant to be exactly art deco but they were meant to be similar and I hoped that people got the link when looking at the overall skyline. I created this building by using the pen and line segment tool. I made a stranded 3D box shape but then added on unique shaped windows. The windows also had white detailing that I though helped bring detailing to the windows, it also showed highlights in the windows. In this screenshot you can also see me creating windows for the side of the building but they are slightly slanted so it helps brings the 3D aspect to life. I made all my building a shade of purple as I wanted a similar colour pallet. I also added in roof detailing to how that it is a building. After creating this building I went on to make another building that was rounded at the top and didn't have sharp edges. 

In this screenshot you can see my final sky line. I added a bottom border to the skyline with a range of purple rectangles. I did this because I new it would be a good place to put text as well as made the city stand out in my opinion. After I created the first building and then the second rounded building I decided to create one piece that is one full block of connecting buildings.

This next screenshot shows me adding in a sun that is setting. The reason that I wanted to add this in is because I felt like the sun a good filler for the sapce that was needed as well as setting the mood for a night setting seean showing that the city still gose on at night. The way I did this was by adding in a large circal with the elipsis tool making sure I was holding down the shift key so it stays a perfect circel. I then made the circal a gradient shape and added in warm colours to help show the dusk of the sun. As I was adding the sun in last minuite the circel was on the top of the skyline layer which ment that the sun was above the building so to fix this I went into the skyline layer and moved the elipsie down to the bottom of the layer so it went behind the buildings. Once I did this I was happy with this layer so I locked it up and when onto my next section.

In this screenshot I opened another layer which was for my planet, like all my planets I had already made them all and was happy with them all so never wanted to redesign it. With this planet I could design it any way I liked it as all that is really known about this planet is that the planet is pink. I made sure to pesition it all right so that the poster looked cohesive. I then locked this layer and moved on.

One of the final steps is to add in the planets titels. This name is abit longer which means it takes more space up but its still centered with the rest of the poster. I chose a purpul and blue toned colour as it went with the rest of the poster. If I added in another bright contrasting colour I think there would of been to much going on which is why I brought in colours from the bottom of the poster to help bring all of the colours together, then like always I locked this layer and moved on.     

In this next screenshot I put the logo and the long text into the same step as I have done the same every other poster just adding in a new layer for the logo and copying and pasting it in as well as creating another new layer to add in the slogones. The wording I used for these was to convince people to come to this planet to have an out of this world shopping experience. I used the a link to New York witch is know to be one of the biggest city's and shopping districes of the world. It is known as the big city so I used a play on words to say come to the new big city as this world will blow New York out of the park. I also added in a grabbing guaranteed that this trip will be like no other, all of these are in the same font as well as being in black. The reason that I placed the text at the bottom of the poster as well and right in the middle of the poster so that they were noticalbe but not to much standing out. This is because this poster has the most going on with limited free space so I wanted to add it into places it fit and not take to much away from the design of the poster.               

In this next step I added in stares to the darkening sky. This was easy as I had my star brush that I made for my last poster. I made a new layer for the stars as I wasnt sure i would like them and this makes it more simple when getting ride of them but I did want to get ride of them once they were done as I really liked the outcome. The stars were quick and easy as all I had to do was select the brush tool as well as clicking the strs brush which is what I named my brush. Once these were selected I draw were I wanted them in till I was happy, then locked this layer and moved on.

The last step I did was add in the top texture layer. I added this in as I really liked the outcome from when I did it to my last poster. I copyed and pasted this layer from the bottom texture layer. They were both on 30% transparent. I locked this layer.


Overall, I am happy with this poster and how it works well with the other posters. This poster to me is exactly what I wanted when thinking of this in my head. This poster is definently my favorite out of them all as it works in my option the best with how its still got this simplisic vibe I wanted as well as being really detailed with lots going on, the popster is full of different things that make the poster work.