Sports Day preparation: advertising poster

During the CAS meeting that took place last Thursday, my classmates and I discussed the upcoming Sports Day event, which is to take place this Thursday, provided that the capricious Moscow weather permits it. There were items on the to-do list, and I volunteered to help out with creating an advertising poster. 

Once at home, I gave careful thought to the the way I was going to approach this task: considering the fact that the poster wasn't supposed to be informative, but rather act as a sort of an ad for the upcoming event, I decided to include colourful images of various sports, along with the date of the event. I chose an A3 size piece of paper in order to give myself more space for the photographs, which I was planning to make quite large, so that they would potentially attract greater attention. I came to the decision that putting the text in the middle and the photos in the corners would make the poster look more attractive as opposed to some other arrangement, therefore I began with the title and the date. I am by far not a visual artist, which is why I chose to use printed letters as templates instead of actually drawing them by hand:

Layout of the title using template letters

Once I was done with the initial layout of the title and date, I moved on to adding some colour to them: I concluded that the brighter the poster is going to be, the more beckoning it would appear, which is why I went for vibrant red and blue:

Displaying my art 'skills' in colouring the text

Upon dealing with the text, I began searching for vivid images that were hopefully going to make my notice look more interesting. After gluing everything together and rubbing off the pencil lines, I ended up with the following:

The finished poster

Looking upon my creation, I decided that it turned out quite alright due to the planning that I had done: it had the desirable colour, and it got the main message across. However, I realised that in order to improve my abilities in art, I should try to begin drawing the elements of the piece myself, which is why I decided that whenever I do another poster, for whatever reason that may be, I will try to hand-draw the lettering instead of using templates, and possibly try to use shading in to bring the text out more than simple colouring-in does. I could also try to work with both smaller and larger paper sizes so that I could make better use of the space available to me.