The student drew a cartoon version of Bob Marley using the pen tool and overlaid the original photo to add perspective. They colored the background and Marley's face with red, yellow, and green - the main colors of reggae music. Text was carefully placed with blending modes. The final steps included color correction to balance the tones. What went well was capturing the reggae style and drawing Marley's face to stand out. It could be improved by including more magazine-style text and information around the central image. Elements to carry over include the reggae colors, similar text style, and featuring a reggae musician.

1. Experiments
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2. Process
Firstly, I drew a cartoon Bob Marley from an original Bob Marley
photograph with the pen tool when drawing around the edges of his
features, hair and face and after I did that, I then proceeded to add and
take away details from what I had done to make it look a bit more
realistic and aesthetically pleasing to look at. After I had a decently
drawn out Bob Marley, I pasted the original Bob Marley image over the
cartoon one and then overlaid and decrease the opacity so that the
image had more perspective and geometry so that it didn’t look too 2D
and flat, which would have made it less worse, from a poster producers
perspective.
Then I drew white all over the background from the pasted image of Bob
Marley to enable me to be able to add more detail in the future, at that
time of production of the poster.

3. For the 2nd process of this, I knew that I was going to use the 3 main,
primary colours of reggae (red, yellow and green) to show and
emphasise that the poster that I was going to create was indeed a
reggae one. I did this by darkening the reggae colours over Bob Marley
so that the colours would be behind him hence the space around Bob
Marley wasn't transparent but in actual fact white. Without these
colours it would be hard to distinguish that of a pop poster, so that is
another reason why I used these colours. Evidently, I used these colours
on his face as well as the background to punch the fact that this is a
reggae poster, to make it look more satisfying and also because it looked
pretty good in my opinion.
Also at this stage, I added a grunge overlay with the lighten or darken
blending mode (can’t remember which) to make it seem more retro or
to make it look more edgy in some sense.
I also added a glow-like effect around Bob Marley via the brush, which
was white, with an overlay so it merged smoothly. Lastly, I then add a
black border to frame the poster and add more professionalism to it. I
duplicated the border, then used a Gaussian blur to make the poster
fade into the centre of the poster a bit which looked good when I added
it because it focused your eyes to Bob Marely, which is the main subject
of this poster.

4. For the 3rd and final process, I made a great change to the poster. I
carefully placed and overlaid the “Reggae”, text so that it had a
balance between looking like it was too professional for the genre
(Reggae) and looking too edgy so that it looked bearable and like a
poster that someone would enjoy.
I also added “Bob Marley”, text at the bottom with low opacity so that
it isn’t overlay noticeable and it look blended in well with the image.
Also I used an overlay blending mode on the text so that it blends in
better with the poster.
Finally, I put the cherry on the cake with colour correct with
“brightness and contrast”, saturation and lighting” and curves to get a
prefect balance in colours to make it look the best it can be .

5. What went well
• As a reggae esque style, I would defiantly say that what I produced, was far in the realm of a reggae style
because it had the reggae colours, Bob Marley, great font and little details that made what I had made look very
reggae-like.
• The proportion of the texts and the images, in coloration to the framing was very great because it was all
aligned, which made it look better opposed to if it wasn’t aligned.
• Another thing that I thought went quite well was how I drew Bob Marley because when I drew him and
proceeded to edit, it made his face pop more, which overall made the whole cover almost focus on his face
because it looked sharp and full of motion which also made then magazine cover look great. I was especially
proud of this because it was my first time doing this so I was optimistic to see that I could do so well with the
cartoony drawing.
What didn’t go well – did you try anything that didn’t work, what did doing the poster
teach you
• I came to many challenges and problems when creating this magazine cover. One thing that was hard for me in
production, was trying to use colours in a way that would compliment other colours and look good in different
areas of the cover in production.
• Fundamentally, I would say that the main thing that would need to be improved with this magazine cover was
to make it more like a magazine cover oppose to looking like just a poster by adding texts and information all
around Bob Marley in my cover.
• I would also say that the production of the poster taught me to experiment because you might find something
that looks great for you work.
What elements of your experiments will you include in your final product?
• An element that I will certainly apply to my final product will be the reggae colour because they strongly
symbolise the culture and genre of music.
• I will probably use a similar style of text in my final product.
• I would also most likely use a person who is in the reggae scene in the middle of the magazine because it looks,
in my opinion, better and it may make people interested in the product more.