Nick Rhodes

Nick Rhodes is an illustrator based in …. The reason behind looking into him is that he has designed been designing posters for Richard Hawley and I wanted to see the approach he takes when tackling music / tour poster briefs. The image in blue with the guitar and book, has a very simple composition but it is incredibly detailed. Rhodes has added texture on the walls and slightly in the foreground. Detail outside the window with the moon and starts and in the mid ground the guitar. I seem like most of this will have been created digitally and the screen printed, therefore there is a limited colour pallet, but screen printed this would look strong. I’m not sure about the band going across the bottom with the type in I think that this bit could have been made to work into the image more, could have been places outside in the window. But in the band it feels to be obstructing the image and might work better compositionally if blended in more.

The second the green poster I prefer over the blue as I like the breathing space he has given the main image. It is a good balance between detail and space. The detail that has been given to the tree and how this blends into the tree house is good and adds a small narrative to the overall picture but I don’t like the white circle in that has been added behind the background trees. It looks out of place and similar with the band in the first image could have been blended in better. However, I am viewing this image on a digital format, but if screen printed it may help all the elements blend together as they are and it would then be in the format it is intended to be in.

His approach seems to be that he takes key parts of information about the artist he is designing for and builds an image around that ,as screen prints both these images would be strong and you do get an idea of process from them.