Process of Tonights Show Poster

Here's the break down of the 6 colors used for the Slow Gherkin poster. This was kind of a tough one to design because I had inside knowledge of all the bands history, likes and dislikes. I scrapped 3 designs before I settled on this one. I wanted the image to be kid friendly, have a simple clean text layout, have something to do with Santa Cruz and something to do with us growing older. So dinosaur was pretty obvious. I added the old school head phones just for fun. The building behind the dinosaur is the Santa Cruz town clock. His head covers the face of the clock, but if you are from Santa Cruz then this is an easy one to spot. Show should be sold out and prints can be bought at the show for a reduced price. I will have some prints reserved for my website, those will be for sale as soon as I can get to it.

Slow Gherkin- Creating the Group Photo

I'm playing a couple of shows this month with Slow Gherkin- a ska band I started back in high school. Wow, that's a long time ago. Because we are all over the country now a group press shot would be impossible. Here is the solution. Start with a good clean photo of the 5 of us that could be there (by Rudy Ramos) and add in the rest. Time was an issue, and as a result Achilles didn't make it into the final pic due to his low-res submission.


original



Peter's pic was pretty clean, but shot at a much higher level than the original...the feet give it away

Ross' pic was low quality, but large enough to work with- same foot problem

James' boss snapped this and masked it saving me some time- hey look, bad angle again!



Final was cropped low to hide the different camera angles

 I had spliced more background into the final on the left side to make room for Achilles, but then cropped it off anyways.