Anatolie poster (and process)

I start with this texture, background, and old paper scanned…

This is my heart… a simple round but that give the sum up the main idea… I did not do scketches, this was in my mind, I directly start the creation based on that… I then add old drawing of solar systeme…

I want to use old animals illustration, always have in mind this amazing video that I love when I was a kid “Love is all”, but the butterfly ball… I know you have it in mind now…

Now, the base of the creation is there, I add the things that defintly need to be there : all the copy requested by the client : name, places, dates… this is a poster, it need to be beautifull, give the spirit of the event but most important, bring the information to let people came to it… never forget this…

I always test a lot of different fonts, but this one, came to me very quickly… sometimes, it is harder ;)

What could have been a problem came quickly into a creative thing… this was not a one time event, but was done in 3 different places at 3 different times… even if other communication tools give the details, it need to be on the main poster… So, I did 3 small planets, like sattelites… Adding them, I figure out the animals can’t be in black and change the colors…

As these staleites are also different “worlds” I add them texture of the different sides of the moon, from an old astronomic book… and add a texture, specially because I do not like plain images… Well, I like them, but it is not “me” ! I also place the 2 logotypes that need to be there in each corner… hopfully they do not ask me to put them in the right colors….

The main poster is now done… just need the details, all the little elements that are not essential, but which give the autenthicity to the piece…

As it is a planet, I want to put skyp at the top and ground on down… so I put air ballon and zepplin ilustrations at the top & botanical onw on down…

And me circles are too circles… I need to deconstruct them and link them… I add some painting splashes…

And last, but not least, the font… I think it was too simple, only put there, not linked with the other elements… So I add some graphics…

This creation was done really naturally… it is not always the case, of course, sometime I need to do 3 before doing the right one, or changing evertything… this one was so easy, so fluid to design… and the client loves it, as a lot of people as a lot of people contact me just for this one ;)

Limited edition 100 copies of this poster are available here : www.harmonie-interieure.com