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School Poster Project: Final Files!

Who knows what Tumblr will do to the colouring of these.. The final files! After a few tweaks, these are the final files that were sent to the printers. In.. JPEG format, for some archaic reason, but there we go D: Hopefully they turn out ok.. The final file sizes were: A1 front only, A4 front and Back. The second image with a lot of pictures was the back. Interestingly, while the main poster took months of back and forth, the back they accepted my first attempt with only one minor change..  Anyway, it’s done! Now to wait for the printed version to come back!!! 

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School Poster Project: Colour Choice time!

Another meeting! The deadline was coming close, so I made a new set of images. 3 colour options to choose from. Not all the paintings were in at this point, and I hadn’t completely cleaned them up either - but good enough for the progress meeting. And the verdict was.. green! 

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School Poster Project: Country Icon Paintings! 2/2

Here are the rest! In no particular order:

16: Ukraine - Borscht 17: Italy - Coliseum 18: Australia - Uluru 19: Mexico - Red Peppers (I forgot what kiiind will edit when I find it) 20: Turkey - Coffee 21: Indonesia - Moon Orchid 22: Taiwan - Breakfast Egg Pancake (update with name) 23: Hong Kong - The Aqua Luna 24: Macao - Historic Museum House 25: China - Lantern 26: Thailand - Decorated Elephant 27: Phillipines - Lumpia 28: South Korea - Hanbok (clothing) Finishing the last ones were the most tricky! Where possible I tried to ask people from a country what would best represent their people, as I wanted to avoid stereotypes where possible, but.. I wasn’t allowed access to the list of students to ask them directly (of course, as that would be a breach of private information!) so I did my best with my friend network and some googling. Eg: I’m quite disappointed with what I ended up picking for China and the Phillipines! I’m sure there would be more iconic things, but I was limited by my resources.. and by the deadline -w-;

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School Poster Project: Iconic objects! 1/2

I am splitting this into two posts.. there are just so many. THIS TOOK ME WEEKS. I am actually quite happy with how most of the objects turned out, but it really took a while. In this batch:

1: Portugal - the Barcelos Rooster 2: Japan - an origami crane 3:  Switzerland - the Swiss Army Knife 4: France - Wine 5: America - Cheeseburger 6: Germany - Pretzel 7: Chile - Copihue (flower) (colour edited later - I couldn’t mix the right shade of pink ;3; ) 8: Belgium - Waffle 9: Singapore - Merlion 10: Ireland - Gaelic Harp 11: UK - Phone Booth 12: Sweden - Dalarna horse 13: Holland - Tulip 14: Latvia - Mittens 15: Malaysia - Hibiscus

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School Poster Project: Map outlines of countries!

Once I found out that country flags were off the table, I thought about what else I could try. I started with some map outlines of countries - with random colours. This also ended up not going anywhere - which is why I only did two batches. These were nice to do, though ;3; I just traced the outlines and then coloured them in! So simple! Ah, well.. “too political” again. 

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School Poster Project: Composition Meeting!

After I finished the flags, it was time for a progress meeting! I made a few variations - both in colour and pattern. Two different sizes and two versions - with or without a secondary item (here visualised using paintings I already had on hand), etc. After the progress meeting.. I got an email. “Any item with a political or religious meaning must be avoided.” Which meant.. all of my flags were off the table. -w-; It would have been nice to know that before! So, we decided to go with icons representing each country - more on that later - in the smaller pattern style. Bye, all of my previous work~

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School Poster Project: The rest of the flags!

I realised that I haven’t updated this blog in a long time, so rather than setting things out in individual posts, I’m just going to combine some things into sets. This will be easier, especially as this project.. morphed.. a lot.. in the last few months.

Anyway! I painted all the flags needed for this stage of the project. In total, there were 28 flags.. these took me a while, especially ones like the UK flag that are very specific. And Mexico.. what a beautiful flag! What a difficult thing to paint. I fixed any errors on the computer later (eg those red bits on the Indonesian flag.. oops), so I wasn’t too bothered about making them perfect.

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School Poster Project: Idea mock-ups!

This whole school poster project has been an interesting process. From the original interview to get the “job”, to emails and meetings on progress - everything has been in Japanese. Which is great practice for me! Just tiring, as well :P I gave 4 ideas for the teachers to discuss and vote on - these are the mock-ups for those ideas. I had two which were Photography-based, and two that were Illustration-based. All Photos used I made sure I was allowed to use, even though these were just mock-ups - making use of the Unsplash library, as well as Photos from past events at the school.  For the last Illustration-based one, I used some of my old watercolours to illustrate what kind of style I could do. It was my last idea, so I has the least time to work on explaining it and making a nice mock-up, but I also explained to them that it was the one that would take the most work.. So of course, that’s the one they’ve chosen! :D ;3; halp