Project 3:Posters

So here are my two posters. The cause should be fairly obvious, but I will not convince you, you must make up your own damned mind, Join the crusade to Stop Malthael, or not. For the Malthael poster I used a few reference pictures of him to try and get him right, but a lot of the pictures out there are all fan made, and the ones by Blizzards have a rather low quality for what I need. I drew him using nothing but the pen tool, and semi tracing him out, but i also had to account for other elements that where present in each image I used, and they may not have been things I wanted. Also I wanted it to look more like a "Wanted" poster. So I need a kinda of lack of detail vs. a proper recreation of the character. I only added a couple of gradients to pull him from the background, as I felt he blended in to well. As for his "Face" I made it a black hole as thats whats he has for one in the game, as do all Angelic characters.

For the other poster I wanted to reference the shield wielded by the new Crusader class character, but I wanted it to be different, much like the real crusaders in how they all had a different shield, but all had a cross of some kind. So i wanted it to be a more unique symbol, but it still references the original is both shapes and color. This one was made mostly using the pen tool, and shape tool to cut it out and then refined with the direct selection tool. From there it was all about the text and making it look like it was printed on paper. I dropped the opacity and added a couple of layers to add objects to help make it all blend in better, and cut the sharpness.

EDIT: So I altered the files that where uploaded here, and I finally got the second one fixed. So now you can read the text. yea turns out the text was to complicated. So I had to find a few ways to simplify it. Not just using the simplify option, but I also added in a few steps in pathfinder.

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