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Propaganda poster and self portrait


 

This is my propaganda poster, at first I wasn’t sure what to write about but then I remembered how important voting was this year. This year was my first year eligible to vote. I was very happy that my first vote was so important in this election. 

This poster was very fun for me to make, I loved taking a message that means so much to me and putting it into art. I really like the colors I used for the propaganda poster, they are muted but I feel like they still pop off the page. they have a strong contrast. 

The process of both of these pieces was to have the original photo in the background and then outline it and create many layers to make the hair and facial features. I have an iPad so I used the illustrator app to create these pieces. I have done this before so I was pretty familiar with the layers and how to navigate the app. I then took away the background layer multiple times to just make sure I was keeping the piece as accurate as possible. 

I started with the first one and then turned it into the propaganda poster. I took the advice from critique and changed the hair to simplify it and make it flow better with the piece. I also made sure to make the neck and face different colors to show that they are different things. I am proud of how these both came out. I like the colors I chose for both of them and I love seeing the changes I made and how it improved the piece. 

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  1. Casper CafferataApril 17, 2021 at 2:21 PM

    I like how sort of straight forward your poster is. It really gets your message across and the colors really catch your eye to make you look at it.

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