poster critique

[dravalanche]

hi I'm doing a poster for my mates band. They just wanted a simple rock poster. what do you think?

http://www.geocities.com/dravalancheweb/undersidedposterfinal2.jpg

[Jeff Wheeler]

It's good, but I think it needs color. Also, the shapes on the beginning and end of the lines are strange.

[dravalanche]

It's good, but I think it needs color. Also, the shapes on the beginning and end of the lines are strange.

it's got to be simple black and white, punk rocks bands don't have the money to print in color. Which lines are you mean?

[Jeff Wheeler]

I meant the lines of text, and was referring to the stars and hearts.

[iLikePie]

i really like it, very effective and clear. I don't think it would NEED colour even if they COULD afford it, so that's good :)

my only suggestion would be to spice up the section where the majority of text is - that dark grey background. I think if you added a bit of a texture to it (anything, a rocky texture, paper, mesh, whatever) it'd separate the sections a bit more - having the photo of the guys breaks up the top from the bottom, but i reckon a bit more would be good.

here i've attached two examples of possible options... i just think that they make the main banner "the undersided" stand out more as well as being a bit interesting. I just searched for "texture" at sxc.hu to see what it came up with, and i liked the basketball closeup (left) and the peeling wood/paint (right).

hope it helps.

[RadioactveChimp]

looks nice, the only thing i think you should get rid of is the darker hairthin lines on the top, i think it should just be those two colors...

[bwh2]

looking good. but i would try to make "the" fit better in that small space. also, and maybe it's just my eyes, but it looks like "undersided" doesn't follow that curve perfectly.

[dravalanche]

looking good. but i would try to make "the" fit better in that small space. also, and maybe it's just my eyes, but it looks like "undersided" doesn't follow that curve perfectly.

your totally right, the curve was totally off ( i'm some what new to illustartor)
I did'nt this till last night I've fixed it up. Also I moved the 'the' down and to the right a bit so it sits better.

cheers for the help.

[dravalanche]

i really like it, very effective and clear. I don't think it would NEED colour even if they COULD afford it, so that's good :)

my only suggestion would be to spice up the section where the majority of text is - that dark grey background. I think if you added a bit of a texture to it (anything, a rocky texture, paper, mesh, whatever) it'd separate the sections a bit more - having the photo of the guys breaks up the top from the bottom, but i reckon a bit more would be good.

here i've attached two examples of possible options... i just think that they make the main banner "the undersided" stand out more as well as being a bit interesting. I just searched for "texture" at sxc.hu to see what it came up with, and i liked the basketball closeup (left) and the peeling wood/paint (right).

hope it helps.

really?

while it attracs the eye to the area,it makes it harder to read the text. There would much buziness happening if I put that stuff in. I choose the plain backgrounds because we wantpeople sitting in thier cars a set of traffic lights to be able to look out and see the poster and take in all the info in a second. Also the texture totally goes the vector/ rock poster style of the rest of the poster.

[unchew]

I like it but not the last fonts of the dayes.

[iLikePie]

each to his own i s'pose.. i think it still has the vector look to it because the rest of it's all block shading, and the threshold'ed pics etc, but with a bit more interest.

but hey, if you don't like it with texture, that's cool :P

[.soulty]

i do think it needs something on the bottom to make the name/title popout.. why not try a very light varations of those sky shines on the top (lol, i forgot the name of those things :sigh:.)