Final Design for Poster Competition

Here's the final design I came up with for my poster competition. I kept it pretty close to the original sketch. As you can probably tell, I drew the bear from scratch using Painbrush, mostly because I couldn't think of a better way to do it. I used the Shaper tool for the ice pond. Click on the image to enlarge.

Poster Competition Sketch

Here's the sketch I came up with for my poster design for the Graphic Matters open-call poster competition. In keeping with the competition's theme of using designs that speak out against false notions in a political context, hopefully with the use of satire/sarcasm/etc., I decided to have a polar bear ice skating across a quickly cracking pond, using the obvious "skating on thin ice" metaphor to express the dangers of buying into climate change denial.

I'm going to try to make the "thin ice" lettering look as icy as possible. And I'm thinking of having the letters in "climate change" slowly go from icy blue to deep red from left to right. I haven't figured out yet what kind of background I might want, if any. Please click the image to enlarge.