Listening to Bath-based band The Heavy the other day inspired me to design a poster for their homecoming gig back at the end of 2016. The poster took a couple of hours to complete. I had great fun messing around with True-Grit's various textures along the way. Here’s my simple process from my initial sketch to final artwork in pictures.

The Heavy homecoming show poster - image 1 - student project

Taking on feedback from a project comment which suggested my poster was missing an illustrative element I decided to go back to the drawing board and try and make this poster more visually interesting so I included a wolf. The use of the wolf is a direct nod to their song from the album The Glorious Dead, The Big Bad Wolf. Being from Bath, the wolf was coming home back to its pack.

The Heavy homecoming show poster - image 7 - student project

Rich Carter

Graphic designer specialising in print.

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