Exciting news... There's many a slip between cup and lip, but it looks like I will have my 'Missing Worker' poster included in the Bill of Health exhibition at Central St Martins! Very excited if it happens because I have never had anything exhibited before! I spent some interesting time speaking to the person who is curating, coming up with some good ways to show the poster. I also volunteered to create a flyer based on the poster. I eventually came up with this - which I am mostly happy with:
I'm really pleased with the weathering effect - I wasn't sure how I was going to do it, but ended up creating two almost transparent copies which I blurred and added noise to, the offset downwards. I also added fake stains, and used an almost transparent noise texture to make the paper looked crinkled. I'm much less happy with the stickers - it was a good idea to use fake pharmacy stickers, but I think they should probably be under the noise so they look less flat.
I initially went down the route of using a real photo of a copy that the curator has left in her garden, but it looked too crinkled for the labels to look even remotely convincing:
Lesson learnt was not to rush, and not to settle...
Did a bit more to the bottles in Secrets, but mostly just tinkering:
I don't know if the process is slow, or I'm slow... I think a bit of both - I'm slow because I'm distracted, and the process is slow because the shaders for the liquid take work, and the wax simulation takes time and energy to set-up.
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