I was asked to create an A1 poster and A3 mini of a character/alter ego of my friend's boyfriend. I was given quite a blurred/bad light photograph so I had to improvise slightly on his facial features on my own. I am very happy because I improvised and it looks like him! I worked reasonably fast on this; it only took around 5hrs and additional tweaks after the final meet-up. I had a long time period to do this, as it is a gift for Christmas, but I was glad I worked so fast on it because it allowed me enough time to change anything she wanted to be changed. (Usually I have very poor time management!)
I created the space background on photoshop, and the character/type on illustrator. I manually shaded the character and the planets, and created the detailed stars by inverting an image of tv static. In some aspects, I would have had the character in complete colour and changed the title/star effects- but I worked with what my friend wanted and I am pleased with the final outcome.
The below image is a screenshot, because the original file size is huge and wouldn't upload!
The only thing that I would still like to change, is the yellow stroke width, but my friend was happy with it.
