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WTDH: Victorian
by Grill_Weaver
All-Around Nerd
9 years ago
Weaving Through Design History: VictorianHA! Spent like forever on this poster.
I didn't have any experience, and much less knowledge, about the Victorian Era, so I had to look at a lot of examples and practice some patterns. While I did ink all of this with a marker, I decided to call it good with filling in only part of the border decoration with color. The ones that aren't colored weren't live-traced properly in Illustrator to just apply a color to the shape. And well I was feeling lazy... :P
The Victorian Era is the easiest era to place a date on. Just go by the time Queen Victoria ascended the thrown in England on 20 June 1837 until her death, on 22 January 1901. The design of the era is easily identified through its excessive ornateness and grandiose designs. Most Victorian posters would be filled top to bottom with words in all shapes and sizes and any imaginable font. Several of the fonts, like the one I chose to mimic with my pencil, is often identified with circus posters.
Despite the headache of drawing it, this might be my favorite so far though. Also tried out a texture behind it to help make it feel more real.
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This whole art series has been a super challenging undertaking, but the Victorian style was so much fun.
It took a little more research than the previous styles, but I was happy with the results.