I participated at Flatstock last year and I made very limited airbrushed posters for my booth. Flatstock is a music poster festival where you can meet gig poster artists and buy their limited editon poster directory. A lot of posters there were done by silk screen printing so I made some very special posters that is very different. I also intentionally made the type hard to read to add art print value to the posters.
Please join me to see how this poster is made in these step by step process below!
1.Based on my design, I laser cut 2 clear plastic film. to make it cost effective, I use exacto knife to cut simple straight lines.
2. all the pieces are cut out.
3. put a piece of paper and ready to print.
4. loading ink in my airbrush. The first ink is blue and I add a drip of yellow ink to make it unpredictable.
5. spraying through out. I try to achieve inconsistant density of ink
6. covering the entire area. Notice some areas are darker and some are lighter.
7. the first layer is done.
8. peeling off the clear film to see the result.
9. this is what it looks like with the first layer.
10. putting the second stencil for the second layer of color.
11. the second color is red. Some area will overlap the first layer to create 3rd color.
12. then peel off the film.
13. now you see 3 color areas
14. because of the hand airbrush, the result is slightly different for each poster.
15. this is the digital mock up before hand airbrush. Exact same design but the result is quite different and interesting.
Hope you like it! Thanks for looking!!