OUIL404- Visual Language- Fan Art (Depth + Line of Sight)

As part of visual language task we have been asked to design and produce a screen printed A4 fan art poster. The poster can only be made using 2 colours plus stock.

The biggest issue I am facing is creating an image complex enough to look interesting, whilst still keeping to just 2 colours. I have chosen to design my image around the film 'Interstellar'; one of my favourite films. I think the biggest reason why I like the film is not just the story, but how it looks, particularly the shots of ships travelling through space, with the frame mostly empty apart from the ship. I love the simplicity and the effect it gives.

I have tried to design my poster in a similar way, focussing on the reasons why I like the film.

My main thought process when designing the image was composition. I tried to implement everything we have talked about throughout the second half of the visual language sessions to create an image that is not only compositionally sound, but interesting to look at.



This was my first draft of the image, which I actually quite liked. Even though the image is incredibly simple, I think it feeds in to the main reason why I like the aesthetics of the film, for the simplicity. I wanted the ship to feel isolated, and almost dominated by the space around it, whilst still being the sole focus of the image.

I placed the ship centrally on the page, and created a flutter of stars from the top of the page which then fade towards the ship, trying to take advantage of line of sight.

I like the scale of the image, because the majority of the image is just of small dots, it allowed me to keep the scale of the ship quite small, which re-enforces the idea of inferiority and isolation. I will potentially play around with the composition a bit more in this image.

Overall I'm fairly satisfied with the outcome so far.

Shame its too detailed to be screen printed. Bollocks.


Update: I fucked up. Totally forgot to consider depth and line of sight in this image. Think I may have gotten a bit carried away with the actual 'fan art' aspect. Oops.

Can I blag this? Not blag but, analyse the image from a compositional aspect now rather than whilst actually making the image? Probably.

The way I see it is, the ship is in the foreground and the stars in the background, although it could be argued the opposite? Space is really difficult to sense depth, as there is no measure of scale, which I quite like the idea of. I really like how the ship is symmetrical and small towards the bottom of the image, I think it helps with the sense of emptiness.

Of course I would be ill on the screen print days and the catch-up session as well. Typical.