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Published: 2004-07-19 08:14:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 5369; Favourites: 71; Downloads: 2416
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Ta-da! This is the quasi-completed flyer for the summer festival in september. The only thing thats going to change is down below the lettering, where sponsors and other miscelaneous info will be added in. It's meant to be printed on 11 x 17 tabloid paper. I'm hoping we can print it on off white paper, too. X3I worked SOOO hard on this. I really wanted it to look like an ukiyo-e, which is a traditional Japanese woodblock print. I think I came somewhat close for a first try, eh? I'm really proud of how it came out, overall. I like the colors, I like the art, I like the lettering. -flexes muscles- Using photoshop has never felt so good.
This is the first time I've actually submitted some of my acutal graphic work; I always just submit the artwork that I do for the posters. Hehe, I hope you guys dont bypass this just cause its more of a design than actual art... :B Let me know what you think!
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I love the colors and overall layout!! great work
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It's really quite beautiful. I love the hazy tones and quality you used to give it that lazy summer feel. Very reminiscent of Japan. And by the way, Ghibli rocks!
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Beautiful flyer...
The style knda reminds me about "hercules" by walt-disney (mh...no, well, that's not so similar...but there's something...i dunno...)
Beautiful, again...
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this is a gorgeous illustration!
you've incoportated the tradtional designs of japanese art beautifully~~
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Beautiful flowy linework, and colors! It's just a soothing piece to look at. The iconc background is great too... I like the clouds.
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Of course I wouldn't bypass it, you really captured the style and feel wonderfully 
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Beautiful work. Graphicly, it is very well designed, thought out and executed. The typography integrates with the image beautiful. And as always, your fine illustration skills shine through. well done!
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Wow, it really looks amazing. Your choice of fonts and colour scheme really highlights your skills as a designer as well as an artist. Great work.
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I like the colors, itΒ΄s like a post-modern Sumi-e...
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Awesome. You really pulled something great off here. If you don't mind me saying, it looks like a blend of ukiyo-e and a more anime type art style. The sensibilities of ukiyo-e are certainly there, but it has an anime look to it. Though on second thought...the poster is a little too crowded to be ukiyo-e. I would take away either the wheat-like plants, the gate, or both, and space out the rest. But I'm sure it'll be fine for a event poster. Great job.
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*dies*
You go to UNR?! That is where i go to school! 
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Ahh, I love how very sharp and clean it all looks...I think you got the woodblock print look down very well! Great job
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looks awesomely professional, the only thing interferring for me is the "summer festival" over "natsu matsuri"
other than that i luv to see your works in design, thatΒ΄s the field i plan on joining someday ^___^
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that's so pretty! i love the simplicity of it and the calm, serene feeling.
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Ooh, very nice. The colours are vers nice, and light, and the design feels like like a cross between a woodblock and paper cutouts. Overall a very clean and crisp feel.
Although i think Edo period Ukiyo-e pictures, usually used a gradiated sky, with much more bolder blue tones, and the clouds were usually grayish rather than white. The colour palette in general is less pastel and a bit bolder, and a little more textured due to the nature of printing.
But maybe that's just Hokusai and Hiroshige. Edo period arts started to deviate from norms anyways.
Nice work!
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it's beautiful! the textures and muted colors really give it a vintage feel, and the simple shapes are very true to traditional woodblcok style.
if i were to offer any critique at all, the reeds on the side crowd the composition a bit. you've already got the text in that uper corner, and the archeway filling the middleground, which takes away from your negative space. If you stick with just one or two of the smaller reeds like you've got at the bottom, and take the larger one's away i think it'd balance it out a lot better.
but don't get me wrong... as a whole it's wonderful! it's the kind of poster that, where i to see a bunch of them hanging in a public place, i'd snatch one of to put on my wall 8)
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wow, this is great, rare style. I'd love to say more on it but this just goes beyond me, some things all you can do is stare at them
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wow, I really like the style of this. Great way to make the old japaanese style merge with digital style.
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wow it turned out really nice...very authentic
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That's so awesome! ^____________^ *Drool* 
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wow very nice.. have the classic retro look to it..
instant fav
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It definately looks like a print. The colors seem dusted, like you used a really big stamp. It's very attractive- I like how you placed the words- most people would slap them right over the mountains and reeds. But this way, it attracts your eye to the artwork, and then the words. I would want to go to the festival if I saw this poster. xP I wish we had Japanese festivals here... *throws rocks at you* ~Blue
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I certainly wouldn't bypass this! 
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this is really, really ....really great 
i love the soft colours, they work so well, and with the textures you've used, gives it a real feel of being old and slightly faded. love the textures + patterns on her dress, and the misalignment really adds to the wood block print feel. the clouds rock. the feather grasses rock. the mountain in the background is very hokusai, which also rocks, and adds even more the the ukiyo-e feel. ugh, sorry to repeat myself, but those clouds and her kimono = teh win
to add some constructive critisism, incase you're looking for it, i'm not sure the words 'natsu matsuri' stand out enough.. well.. especially on the matsuri part, probably because the f and the l of festival cover it so much, and make it slightly hard to read, but only at first glance. tbh i'm clutching at straws 
also, i think it's great that you've gone for this style, rather than the obvious choice of anime-esque. not that there's anything wrong with that style (like the one you did last year) but this is so much more of a statement, so much less cliche, much much more mature
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nice, me likes the colors not being in the lines.
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It does like wood block print but it also has some what of a 1920s feel to it
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