Poster-First Draft

This is the first initial draft of the poster, putting the images together

and starting to look at layout and colour.

I think the background is something I like and I am going to keep,

as well as the skull. The Tequila bottles need some work but I am going

to arrange with the manager of Neon Cactus so I can go down and 

show them what I have so far and what they want to change/keep.

Textures

I don't just want to have a solid colour background to the posters
so I am going to use a texture.
I thought an orange background would be most appropriate for two reasons,
one being that Neon Cactus' logo and branding is orange and also orange
is the prominent colour of flowers that people use to decorate their shrines on Day of the
Dead. These are two background that I found that I am going to try working with
on my poster...

Sugar Skulls

As it a Day of the Dead poster I thought there had to be some sugar

skulls on there somewhere, they are the iconic symbol of Day of the Dead.

I started by drawing this one at the top just straight on, but then did consider the 

layout of the poster and thought as I will be having the bottles and other

items about it would be good to have a side on, more 3D drawing.

This drawing might be more useful because I am considering having the poster set out with 
a table and having the tequila bottles on the table along with the skull so this
skull would fit better with the layout of the poster.

Day of The Dead Poster Imagery

 Neon Cactus is a Tequila bar so I wanted to reflect that in the poster
and use Tequila bottles in the poster, also using the label of the bottles
to display some of the information on the poster.
I also tried to find a type face that matched that of the Tequila
bottles I was looking at.
I looked at Jose Cuervo Tequila and found a type face that matched
theres quite closely called Iglesia which I based my type on.

I have tried to draw a few different Tequila bottles and also 
one lay down with the liquid spilling out which I thought could work
some where on the poster.
I am going to put these images into Illustrator and work on them there.

Pattern Design Ideas

To start off the idea generation for the patterns for my surface pattern
brief I started with the basics and looked at geometric patterns and shapes.
These are some of the initial sketches, I need to think how they can fit together
and work on the stationary.

Design Direction

For our tutorial tomorrow we need to show some design direction
for each of our briefs. I haven't yet started designing for any of my briefs
so I have made up some boards that show the type of work I want
to produce for each brief.

Day of the Dead Posters-Type

These are the initial design ideas for the type for the day of the dead
poster for Neon Cactus. I have looked at Mexican imagery and iconic
images from the Day of the Dead festivals. Orange flowers are
a major part of the decoration of the festival so I have included them 
in the text. I need to see how it works with the rest of the content 
of the poster, that will depend of if the flowers will stay or go.