I have started to develop some of my final designs in photoshop - making shapes on illustrator, tracing my thumbnails and then cutting these out from my monoprint textures. I think overall this process is working with the graphic and shape - based quality of my work, and the use of texture adds further interest which I think lacked in the gouache paintings.
I need to develop these further - adding more overlaps and colours as they are looking quite flat and dull at the moment. I also need to find a way of defining the facial features of the Orangutans that does not look out of place with the rest of the design.
I also started to play around with how I could add type to my designs, to make them into my primary application of a poster/social media campaign. I liked the idea of using type in a similar way to that of Anna Kovecses, but I think my attempts are feeble at best - mostly due to my lack of skill in typography. I think its best to keep it simple (like in the design to the left) - this is also more in keeping with WWF's branding that I have seen in previous campaigns.
