Art lessons on poster design

1. SAVE THE
OCEAN

2. Marine pollu,on
occurs when harmful, or
poten2ally harmful
products enter the ocean.

3. Pollutants enter rivers and the
sea directly from urban and
industrial waste discharges like
toxic waste. They are hazardous
to marine life

4. Examples of
waste:
1. Plas,c bags
2. fishing tools
(nets, hooks etc.)
3. Food packaging
(boEles, wrapping etc.)

5. What other
pollutants can
you think of?

6. For this project we will design a
POSTERon
SAVE THE OCEAN

7. Things I will need for
ALL ART LESSONS
Bring:
• Scissors
• Glue
• Scotch-tape
• One item that you can recycle like plastic
bag, toilet roll card etc.
• Oil pastels and other colouring material
• Imagination and thinking cap
If you have finished, what should you do?

8. POSTER : Background
• For the background, we will use recycle old
magazines’ pages to create a background
that resembles blue ocean.
• Tear the pages into wavy strips and stick
them on middle section of the drawing paper.
• Questions for the artist: Must the
ocean be blue? Can it be other cool colours?

9. Only around the
center section of
the paper. You can
also add wave-like
patterns by using
oil pastels !

10. POSTER : Title
• A title (aka headline) is extremely important
because it tells the reader what the poster is
about
• It must be eye-catching and “loud” through
the use of bright contrasting colours and
appropriate layout.
• Colour bright colours on the headline. Apply
the colours before cutting them out. You can
leave a white border

11. POSTER : Title

12. POSTER : Title
• After apply colours, you can cut them into
different words.
• Arrange them and lay out the words to look
eye-catching and “loud”
• Questions for the artist: Where do
you think would be a suitable position for the
title? Top, Bottom or Center?

13. POSTER : Title

14. > add some details of the
ocean around the title so
that it would cohesive to
the rest of the poster.!
> Your poster should look
like this now. !

15. POSTER : Dolphin and Turtle
• Dolphin and turtles are the main characters
of the poster.
• In advertising, they are called the LEAD or
the STAR. Hence, they should be as
important as the title.
• Each group will receive one dolphin and one
turtle. Please colour them and cut them out.
You can leave a white border.

16. POSTER : Dolphin and Turtle
• What colours do you think dolphin and turtle
are?..........

17. POSTER : Dolphin and Turtle
• What colours do you think dolphin and turtle
are?
• Different shades of blue
u Dark
u Light
u Navy
• Different shades of grey

18. POSTER : Dolphin and Turtle
• What colours do you think dolphin and turtle
are?
Create sensible
patterns on the
dolphin or create
different parts for
different colours. It
will make your
dolphin more
interesting. !

19. POSTER : Dolphin and Turtle
• Other examples.

20. POSTER : Dolphin and Turtle
• What colours do you think dolphin and turtle
are?
• Different shades of green
u Army
u Dark
u Light
u Muddy
u Turquoise
• Different shades of brown
and dark yellow

21. POSTER : Dolphin and Turtle
• What colours do you think dolphin and turtle
are?
Create sensible patterns
on the turtle or create
different parts for different
colours. It will make your
turtle more interesting. !

22. POSTER : Dolphin and Turtles
• Other examples.

23. POSTER : Dolphin and Turtles
• Arrange the 2 sea animals around the “ocean”
• Make them look interesting and attractive.

24. POSTER : SAVE THE OCEAN..
HOW?
• How can we save the ocean?
• Can we think of some ways?

25. POSTER : SAVE THE OCEAN..
HOW?
• How can we save the ocean?
• Can we think of some ways?

26. POSTER : SAVE THE OCEAN..
HOW?

27. POSTER : SAVE THE OCEAN..
HOW?
• For the segment, we are going to think about
how we can use recycled material to created
a design with a slogan that says “Don’t
Throw Litter”.
• There are many things we can use like plastic
bags, small plastic bottles, small cans,
Styrofoam boxes etc.

28. POSTER : SAVE THE OCEAN..
HOW?
• We can cut a segment of the recycled object
into an interesting shape (organic shape).
• It would be pasted on the bottom of the poster.

29. POSTER : SAVE THE OCEAN..
HOW?
• With the same logic and
steps as the headlines,
apply colours on the
wordings and stick them
onto the recycled object.
• If you are using plastic, you
will need some scotch-
tape (use sparingly) as glue
does not stick well with
plastic.

30. POSTER : Touching-up
• Touching-up means to add details to make your
design more complete. Like
1. Seaweed?
2. Small fishes as the background?
3. Bubbles? etc.
• Make sure everything is stuck on properly and
nothing will fall off.
• Make sure that you have applied colours
properly and add in pattern, if needed.

31. POSTER : Touching-up
• BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, ASK THE ARTIST
THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE
POSTER:
1. Are there enough details? Will it be too messy?
2. Is it too empty? Are there too much blank space?
3. Will it look more interesting if I add this?
These are design decisions that artists need to
make. Try to have an image in your head and use
your imagination to help you.