Gig Poster - Vena Amoris

Concept - I wanted my poster to be something meaningful and deep that would cause a person to dive deeper into the concept behind the words and images.  I thought that silhouettes created such a feeling as love and other variables that went into the ideas that I had. 

Text -  I started with a word blurb.  I picked a feeling, a genera of music, and my favorite color.  From there I wrote the first words that came to my mind about those subjects and then I branched off of those words/ideas.  The last branches I connected to each of those topics. 

Vector Draft - I thought that silhouettes captured the feelings that can occur between two individuals and used some ideas from pinterest to help create them.  I wanted a simple canvas and worked around negative space with the blacks and white and I added a real heart to make it more abstract.  I thought that I could somehow create either the symbol of a heart or a real heart underneath the chins and form them into their clothing because I wanted my audience to view two images in one, however it was a little tricky so I stuck to giving my canvas some white space and created a real heart.  I added movie theater lights at the top thinking that it would look as if the heads of the male and female silhouette were opening and I could have my text come out of their brains.

Final Vector - For the final product I kept the male and female silhouettes and the heart.  I got rid of the movie theater lights and kept my negative space black.  I made the entire image/vectors bigger on my canvas.  I changed the heart from red to black and added flowers in different colors and opacities to give it the color and focus on the poster that I wanted.  I added the butterfly for personal reference and meaning.  I separated the text from the center and the left and right bottom corners to create an invisible triangle.  I had a lot of different ideas for the name of the band and I started playing around with things that relate to the heart and the names of different valves.  I thought of the myth of the vein in the left hand fourth finger or known as the ring finger, connecting to the heart.  I looked up the name and looked at what it meant in Latin as a dead language and that is how I came up with Vena Amoris.