Theatre Advertising Posters

These theatre posters were created for an Illustrator project. The first one I created was for The Little Shop Of Horrors. The object was to create a theatre poster for a performance that has happened in the last five years. I chose to advertise for the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton. I recreated their current logo in Illustrator and experimented with a lot of effects and these showcase how the typography can really set the mood. I drew the human eating plant, Frankenstein, and Dracula myself.

For the Frankenstein poster I used a mixture of photo in the background and drew the lightning, played with the opacities, and typography. The Dracula poster depicts the struggle between the man and the beast with the split between dark and light in the typography and the smaller reflection of Dracula in the background shows that he is haunted in a sense. I had a lot of fun creating these posters from investigating what has already been done, mood boarding, experimenting with different layouts, typography, and color schemes to the final products you see here.