I am really pleased with how these turned out, I think the combination of photos, line work, drawing and bold colour has been a good choice for this project. I wanted to create statement pieces which presented constructivist architecture as bold, powerful structures that are marking a point in history which was creating a positive change for Russia.
Although I haven't involved anything explicit about the Russian Revolution, I think by using Russian constructivist architecture and the combination of red black and white - which were the colours seen on all propaganda posters during that period, and red being the colour of communism; I think they do convey a sense of revolution about them and can be related back to that point in history.
I was a bit worried about printing, because I hadn't realised that the documents were set in RGB colour mode until after I had finished them all, and when I went to convert to CMYK the colours didn't look right at all, and it was too late to do them all over again in the right colour mode for printing.
But luckily they weren't affected at all by this. Although, seeing them on A2 size does mean you notice a lot more that isn't right compared to seeing them on screen.
For example, some of the lines aren't as straight as I would like them and annoyingly it is a lot more noticeable on large scale.
There are a few marks on the page which I didn't see before, but I think they work quite well with the gritty, industrial feel of the theme.
I think the colour on the last piece is a bit off compared to the other two, and I think there is too much white and not enough dark and black bits, as the other two have sizeable sections of black which make them more bold.
Also the white lines on the tower piece are a bit too white compared to the white used for the actual tower bit, I didn't realise the difference in white when working on screen.
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