Master's Art Poster

This was a project I did in 2009 in Drawing for Graphic Design. This was my first project using Illustrator (or any program from Adobe Creative Suite, for that matter). The finished size was 11x17.

We had to research our favorite Art Master and recreate a design of our choice. I chose Erte. He was a famous designer of the 1920's era. Most of his work was centered around fashion design, during the Art Deco Era. 

No live tracing was allowed. Ha! I didn't even know what live tracing was when I first started out as a baby graphic designer :) Anyway, I also didn't know how to use most of the other tools in Illustrator either and for this reason, I had drawn each individual line using the pencil tool. I look back and think about the tools and techniques I used in creating this design and I realize I have come a LONG way since then. It really is amazing. These days I never use the pencil tool, I just don't have any use for it anymore. I have since found much more useful tools in illustrator and more efficient ways of reproducing a piece like this, from start to finish.

So, the first half of this project was to do research on our favorite Art Master and write up a one pg. paper about the artist. Then we recreated a design of our choice. The last part was to incorporate our finished design into a poster to be displayed in a museum where our Art Master's work is or would be typically displayed. I chose the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.






Top - My design
Bottom - Copy of Erte's original design