Surprise!!
... finished approximately 7 hours before I set off back to uni, the final RPGsoc dewberry; the redone legacy poster!
The blue border is ever-so-slightly under A3 size, so a bit shorter and wider than A3 should be (darn, it won't fit in the plastic sleeves I got for it unless I do some surgery ¬___________¬...) done in chalk pastel on black paper, letters in ink and gel pen.
It's still not great, and I intend to gripe constantly about the imperfections - colours which faded dramatically after spraying the pastel with fixative (actually you can't tell in this image, since I darkened the background); the black space behind the fencers is too blank and the flow of the composition is a little off - I think the sparks from the rapier-strike need to be brighter and have a stronger curve, that the title should be slightly wider and the border slightly thinner etcetera, etcetera, ad infinitum. I also itch to add a motif in silver gel pen around the letters/borders/anywhere.
But I know this would be Bad.
It is a lot better than the original, and it is staying as it is.
The blue border is ever-so-slightly under A3 size, so a bit shorter and wider than A3 should be (darn, it won't fit in the plastic sleeves I got for it unless I do some surgery ¬___________¬...) done in chalk pastel on black paper, letters in ink and gel pen.
It's still not great, and I intend to gripe constantly about the imperfections - colours which faded dramatically after spraying the pastel with fixative (actually you can't tell in this image, since I darkened the background); the black space behind the fencers is too blank and the flow of the composition is a little off - I think the sparks from the rapier-strike need to be brighter and have a stronger curve, that the title should be slightly wider and the border slightly thinner etcetera, etcetera, ad infinitum. I also itch to add a motif in silver gel pen around the letters/borders/anywhere.
But I know this would be Bad.
It is a lot better than the original, and it is staying as it is.