what's the name of this design? how does one achieve the composition and the colors in illustrator? is it even in illustrator since it's made in early 1900s.
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>>459302the contrasts looks very distinct
>>459301Look up art deco propaganda/advertisements, art nouveau advertivements, and constructivism art and advertisements. You will like it.>how does one achieve the composition and the colors in illustrator?Basically you should study these styles, art composition, color theory, etc.
>>459301Based style, you should make some motivational posters for /pol/ to keep the brethrens spirits strong
>>459303That type of color saturation, contrast, opacity and general tone is characteristic of gouache paints and illustrations made with them....at the time when hand illustrations were still the norm (photo printing was expensive) and printed media likecmagazones and posters became cheap to mass produce, gouache was to go-to medium because of its speed and adaptability to a wide range of techniques...it can go on thick/opaque like oils or acrylics or be thinned to act like watercolor.Lots of image editors have gouache filters, but learning how and why it was used is best if you want to get that effect.
>>459308Another characteristic of many vintage gouache illustrations was to really emphasize the main subject of the image with heavier opaque application and then use a lighter and more transparent sketch-y application to fill in background detail and color to balance the composition and mimic natural vision.
>>459301FYI, since accuracy is important when researching this kind of thing, they didn't have radar or jets in the early 1900s and the first purpose built USN aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1934.That's a WW2 era carrier and post WW2/Korean/ Cold War era jet silhouettes ...that poster is from 1947-1958 and almost certainly done by this guy-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Binder_(graphic_designer)Note that he wrote a book called "Color In Advertising"->"The book begins with the statement "Colour is the poster-painter's chief means of creating effect." This statement holds true in Binder's own work, as well as his assertion that that color harmony must be a harmony of contrasts if a poster is to hold the viewer’s attention. Binder advises designers to consider color's physical and psychological factors. Citing Newton and Goethe, he suggests that the optical illusion of an afterimage shows that the eye is capable of producing color on its own and this connects to “our innermost human disposition. We need green to free ourselves from red. We need yellow to counterbalance blue.” Regarding the psychological effects of color, Binder forwards the idea that changing the natural colors of objects, if done carefully, can create an element of surprise."Lots more cool examples of his and others work of that era'https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/art/exhibits/conflicts-and-operations/navy-recruiting-posters-of-the-atomic-age.html
>>459311More background and examples on Joseph Binderhttps://eyeondesign.aiga.org/seminal-designer-joseph-binder-is-proof-that-even-legends-escape-wikipedias-notice/
>>459311is that book available online?
>>459305that's why I'm learning
>>459323I did not find it, but there is this one "Joseph Binder : an artist and a lifestyle : from the Joseph Binder Collection of posters, graphic and fine art, notes, and records"https://archive.org/details/josephbinderarti0000bind/mode/2upand there is some pages of the book Colour in Advertisement here:https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1743728/colour-in-advertising-book/
>>459301Alrighty:Start with the stencil workYour going to want to use flat simple vector objects the best and most authentic way is to cut it by hand from an image reference. I was lazy and used brightness contrast to get a 1 layer bitmap. Next up is an airbrush layer. Your going to want to cut more stencils and use the blur tool on them for the fades in and out. I'd suggest 1 layer of fine detail, one for shadows and lastly one for fills. Again I failed by blurring the whole object, you only need a part of it.Lastly you can grain merge with a paper texture or use Photoshops in house paper effects.
>>459329I found a document at the bottom of this website but not sure how to download it. There's some artwork and instructionshttps://www.josephbinderaward.com/joseph-binder
>>459332Here it is, dude> https://anonfiles.lat/f/?id=30180302dfec48b568eee746553b4f3c
>>459336Danke fren :DD
Its not that >>459331 is "wrong" or that his techniques aren't valid or useful but the result is clearly not the same, mostly because of using a "stencil" approach...the Binder posters definitely used masks to create certain effects but there's little if any stencil- like keyline like in that anon's example.Binder's style is a prime example of *posterization*, which is more about reducing the number of colors used within an image...it can be done manually or photographically and is in many cases an inherent effect of the printing process used and how the colors are separated.To do it digitally, tweaking brightness and contrast and exposure can help to eliminate more subtle gradations and give the feel of reduced color depth, but it's not the same as what you get with a "posterize" filter or adjusting color depth downwards. When done digitally you can get weird banding artifacts so blurs can help reverse that and still keep those colors reduced but not to the point of looking like stencils.Most gouache effect filters are essentially doing posterization with some saturation change to mimic it's more opaque nature. Picrel is not identical to the look of Binders posters but as you can see limits the color pallette and simplifies detail the same way without having any stencil-y keyline
>>459349Another example of a photo image posterized using multiple passes through a gouache filter interspersed with tweaks to saturation and brightness/contrast used to wash out and blur color details.Again, not saying its *the* way to do it and its also a quick/lazy effort...its just for comparison with the other method suggested and the original pics.
>>459350One more...obviously if you are working from photos the original values matter and a lot of the brightness and exposure effects to create bold contrast can be done at that stage...more light and exposure can posterize photos in the camera, and it's actually a problem when you don't want it.
