Cowboys and Indians- collage poster

I started this task by researching wanted posters and the styles they was created in, I felt the wanted posters was a bit obvious to make and that a portraite on a poster would be easy because that's one of my strong skills with in my practice so I decided to go for a more figurative and lesser detail image on a poster.

• making thumb nails of different poster ideas let me experiment with fun a quirky posters themes. I was taken to the rodeo idea because I felt it would be somthing you would have seen in the old west... Anything for a cowboy to make a bit of cash.

• I made a rustick backdrop with brusho. I started by wetting the paper and and brushing a thin layer of brusho over it to get a solid base and then I flicked black ink on to the poster backdrop

 

• I found a very basic image of the out line of a silhouette of a rodeo cowboy, I used sharply and a fine pen to block out the image but leaving enough information so you can see what the image is. I then used asertate to trace the silhouette so i could apply it to my poster and later photocopy the image.. I used asertate on the hope that when I photo copy it you could see the texture to give it an old printed look.

• I printed of a western A-Z font and used asertate to create my txt for the font 

Final layout

• I was advised to add white to the image to bring out movement and a more prominent expressive tone to the image. 

At this stage I'm really happy with he results because I never do collage work or use asertate in any of my methods of working but after this I feel I will definitely use this method in the future. Been able to move the asertate and experiment with layout and been able to see it before hand has really helped me, it's given me a confidence to use txt in my images, as before I would keep away from txt, due to my dyslexia I have (had) 0 confidence in adding txt to me work. I feel this is a tiny brake through in my practise.

 

Happy with this scanned image I got the effect I was looking for the grainy backdrop and the texture with in the txt and image.