Sophie Knight and the author decided to each create two posters advertising their city. The posters were to have a cartoony style depicting the cityscape rather than people. The author began by learning to draw realistic clouds digitally. They then warped buildings and text to curve upwards in line with the caricatured style. In the final poster, the author was pleased with the curved buildings but felt the smaller bottom text and logo could be improved.

1. Poster production

2. The initial idea
For the project it was decided that me and Sophie
Knight were going to do two posters between us.
The posters were going to be based on the city and
are going to be advertising the city instead of
focusing on the people like the video does.
We wanted the style of the posters to be quite
cartoony, as this was the style that the character
drawings and cityscape looked. The color scheme is
light pastel colours to match the character drawings
that were done in water colours. We chose the
font, it’s …., it is going to be red with a black back
shadow added, we chose red as it will contrast with
the pastel colours used for the rest of the poster,
also the black shadow will make it stand out more
and make it look more 3D.

3. Mock up

6. Production
I started production by looking into how to draw
realistic clouds, as I did not want them to look like
the cloud to the right that is super unrealistic. I found
some guides online and tried to copy the technique,
and drew them using my graphics tablet.
After that I cut certain buildings out of the cityscape,
and used the warp tool to make them look more
caricature styled.
Then I got the font and warped it so that it looked
slightly curved upwards to match the style of the
buildings.
After this I added the text at the bottom, and
changed the font to match Sophie Knights poster.
Then I added the logo into the bottom right corner.

7. Final poster
Overall, I really like my final poster. I think that it
resembles the mock up that I made.
I think that the curves of the building looks quite
effective, it makes it look really like a cartoon. I also
think that the clouds look effective, this is because
they are cartoons but still look somewhat realistic.
Something that I would improve if I were to remake
this poster is that I would make the text at the bottom
a bit different. I would change the colours to be
darker, and then make it bolder, because it looks odd
compared to the title font. Another thing that I would
redo is the logo, I would make it slightly bigger and put
it into the the top left corner.