Nnenna Freelon Poster Process (Final sketches to first digital)

These are my initial poster sketches for my Folly jazz poster. These sketches begin to explore the layout of the poster, the rendering of the poster, the typefaces used, and the way the information (date and time) is conveyed. The three concepts I used in sketching these were the idea of Freelon's voice flowing like water, her voice and music expressing love, and her show-woman-ship.

These iterations were the first digital compositions for the poster. Still rockin' the same concepts minus her vocals expressed using hearts reflecting the love in her music.

Dropped the idea of trying to visually express her vocals using a specific motif and moved forward with the idea of her stage presence. Instead of using a motif to express her vocals I have decided to allude to her vocals and music through color palette and composition in the poster.

Two further iterations of Nnenna's stage presence. The background I use came from my rendering tests exercise. It is construction paper slapped onto a white illustration board disc and spun on a record player to get the smooth blurred colors.