Major Project - Poster design

For the poster I wanted to go for a simple and easy to achieve effect, the first thing I did was photograph the silhouette of the face.

I wanted it to appear as if the blue mist leaving their lips was actually illuminating their face, yet I didn't want to get too much detail.

To achieve this effect I lit the subject's face and purposely underexposed the image.

I then added the image to Photoshop and changed to color temperature to a much more cold blue.

Then I masked out the face and separated it from the light.

Once the image was masked I created a new layer and added a gradient to the image, I wanted it to look like the only source of light in this darkness was the glowing mist, or "Breath"

To add the breath I found a free to use image of "smoke" online, I chose this one as I liked the definition of the swirls. The fact it was black and white was also helpful as I was able to simple change the blending mode to Divide, which changed the image in relation to the background as well.

 

The next thing to do was the text, I spoke to Jemma in regards to the font type for the bottom font, which was called Movie Poster SU.

I went through several different fonts for the title, I wanted an elegant "Medieval" type font, but many made the feel of the poster feel like a romance, especially when the "a" in "Last" looked like an "o" or a "u" 

Since the "Lust" Breath would denote a completely different type of story I settled for a font called "Infiltrace"

I first created the title, centered on the screen.

To create the glow behind the letters I duplicated the title and changed the text color to white, then adding a gaussian blur to the text and layering them on top of each other results in this look.

I am quite pleased with how the poster came out and feel like it suits the feel of the anime and accentuates how I envisioned a breath in my head.