The Phantasy was also fertile soil for Cleveland’s ascending 1970s and 1980s music scenes (…)” The Ramones, Iggy Pop, the Pogues, the Damned, the Psychedelic Furs, the Cramps, Motorhead and the B-52s all played there. “ Nine Inch Nails debuted at the Phantasy. Some additional visual elements (stalks), sprinkled with some textures would tie the whole piece together.Īdditionally, we’re locating this era-defining performance at the Phantasy Nightclub in Cleveland (Lakewood), OH. A dark background featuring white text would make for increased contrast. With the elements in hand, it became clear that the shield shapes would support, and frame, our neon portrait. Lastly, the amazing library of album art through the ages hosted at Fonts In Use proved good jump-starting material. I started with TRVE.COLORS, which morphed to PWR.CLRS (Power Colors). The slogan on this gentleman’s shirt was the key to the band name. The second photo that helped to shape the piece was this other portrait, taken by Jay Clark. I knew rapidly this would become my centerpiece element. The first photo is this striking night portrait, taken by Alex Iby. The next bits of inspiration came from two photos available from the wonderful collections over at Unsplash. We’ll look at techniques to remove some of the fluff. Although all the elements are exquisitely drawn, their complex highlight and shading made them hard to mix with other elements.
The elements that immediately jumped at me were the shield shapes (actual shield, circular patterned version), the stalks, and some of the oval frames. The vector pack features a lot of clean cut, precisely drawn shapes, with careful highlights, shadows, and ornaments. The inspiration from this piece came from three different sources: the vector pack itself, a superb portrait bathed in neon, and wide array of album art examples.
Gathering some inspiration, and putting a concept together
As we’re pressed for time, we’ll be leveraging the library of visual assets provided by the vector set to speed up our design process. He’s releasing his first record, and needs to let the masses know about the fun night ahead. The experimental musician is based in Cleveland, and produces a mix of hard-hitting electronic beats, distorted guitars, and spoken word surrealistic poetry. Our framework for the tutorial is that we’ve been contracted to create a poster for up and coming musical act PWR.CLRS. We’ll talk about inspiration, layout exploration, and execution. We will be leveraging the contents of our brand new Crest of Arms vector pack to create a poster for the release of PWR.CLRS’ first, self-titled, album. Hello GoMediaZine/Arsenal blog readers! Simon here with a new step-by-step tutorial.
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