HannaJoo_
Graphic Review Archive
First Impressions: [3.5/10]
at first glance what i thought (sometimes unedited thoughts
and how my mind works when i first look)
it doesn't give me a positive first impression.
its not a terrible poster. it just seems that you are semi- new to designing.
theres too much going on in this poster.
its very "busy" and "full"
i think you tried to have every space covered,
which kind of overpowers your eyes and doesn't give it a rest.
ill go more into depth about it.
Technique: [20/20]
how masterful are you at blending/cutting
i cant really comment on blending or cutting here since it doesnt exist.
so you get full points here for default ::shurgs::
it's a collage, and you chose to make it in the most simpliest way.
taking the image, cropping, pasting and moving it.
the images are cropped well though. i would have liked the girl
to have some more space on her left to breathe.
will speak more about that in composition section.
Resources: [4/20]
does your images/stocks/brushes/textures enhance the poster
images chosen are good. from what i can tell, they seem to be a good quality.
they are very over processed though. if they were black and white images,
i wouldnt mind if they were a tint blue, but this much is too much.
it kind of hurts to look at them. i would prefer if it were more muted.
the stock is subtle so i dont see what its there.
if it wasnt there, it wouldnt impact the piece much.
when you add stocks, let it been seen.
textures. are there any textures? if there are they seem to be poorly chosen.
the blue could have been easily done with just a solid fill and set it to screen / hard light / overlay
and the pink looks like it was added with a new layer and set to screen.
also if you look above the girl's head theres some weird pink watery marks?
it looks really harsh. its sort of unflattering. the border around the images is also quite strange.
there is this cross hatching / checkered sharpness that is on the left of the poster,
it looks over sharpened and it doesn't enhance the piece, it actually makes me feel like it is
something left over that is low quality.
finally the text that is overlapping the entire poster is beyond distracting.
it stands out too much especially over the characters faces.
I would blur or erase those parts out. when viewers look at posters,
we naturally look at the characters eyes since that is how humans relate to each other.
and seeing their face cluttered with text is bizarre.
i think you should focus on getting different kinds of resources.
when i download textures, i ignore the ones that "look amazing and pretty" already on their own.
some look so "done" like they are a work on art on their own.
i found that they are really hard to work with and they were customized to be used in such a specific way,
that its not very versatile and i cant use it over and over and over.
i look for more natural and subtle elements like paper stocks and dirt.
they can really enhance the piece if you know how.
the next major point to work on in this category is finding matching stocks.
find some that are suitable for the moods.
for instance landscapes are good, trees, bridges, cities.
rain drops, flowers are also good choices.
treat them like another character / focal point and they can really enhance a piece.
here are some amazing collages that if you really look at, study it, you can learn some good tips from.
i will refer to these posters through out the review and refer them with the labels.
notice how in each of them there are natural elements added.
there are stocks that look like papers / notebooks, there are torn edges,
some are styled to sort of resemble Polaroids or film slides.
notice that rarely any of them are just cropped, copied, pasted and then done.
they are well incorporated into the piece. really l
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