First post!....(This site has made me realise how much I need to improve my skills!)

[Dan Bowden Design]

editted! link removed a couple of posters just under my rant.

Yeah, so I started making some posters for DIY shows in about November of last year, and have been doing them on-and-off since, still trying to find my own style and improve at both drawing and photoshop, after never having used any computer art stuff, and having not drawn a jot in 10 years.

Any feedback would be appreciated, I've read a fair bit and see people don't generally seem to like the cutting corners with using fonts rather than hand-drawing - I've done a few hand drawn but that's definitely something I need to practice a lot - and also a lot of the promoters have prefered really clear text and LOTS of info.

I want to learn screening soon, and might enroll on a course this summer, so these design's haven't been done with nice screen printing in mind, and just been printing on laser/inkjet printers so lots of different colours hasn't been a problem, but definitely need to starting thinking about only using 2/3 colours if I head down that route and learn to print myself I guess.

Any comments/feedback/tips/ what works-what doesnt would be ace. I know my stuff isn't quite there yet, but I don't think it's total balls either...

Cheers!

[jayryan]

hello dan. welcome to gigposters. please decide now which cheese you favor the most, as you will be questioned momentarily.

[JustinHelton]

or bacon. and get a classified.

[steve w]

and go Premium

[jayryan]

steve, ask him about the cheese.

[philaarts.com]

[Dan Bowden Design]

Cheese, I'd say my favourite standard is probably cambezola (sic), but full poncey extra bit cheeses there's a lovely local farm in sussex which does goats cheese rolled in chilli flakes.

sorry for the link if that's what the chap meant by get a classified? I'll amend and just upload a couple of the posters here rather than weblink if that's the done thing...

bacon? I'm not sure how to respond to that....

hello anyway, only 6 months of lurking before first post.

go premium? after pay day, I'm eating kidney beans this week.

[Dan Bowden Design]

That's a lovely picture that has just appeared mid reply. How many months is it going to take before I understand if I'm being greeted or insulted etc btw?

[philaarts.com]

[RichieGoodtimes]

You may never know. Don't get all British about it.