VIME 40th Anniversary Poster

We all have our hobbies and clubs that for specific hobbies. My father's club, Vancouver Island Model Engineers specializes is model trains, making and driving them. Their best models can also be ridden and pull riding cars. Thanks to their members, the club has been around for 40 years and could be the best part of a peninsula museum. To celebrate the club's anniversary, they are holding a party open to the public, complete with trains ready to ride. But they needed to let the public know, so my father asked me to design a poster for them. Other members of the club also created posters, but my design selected by the entire club. The main concept of the poster was a boy playing with his toy train while imagining he is driving the real thing.

Autumn Train Station

Even though Autumn officially began a couple of weeks ago, it wasn't until now that I really began to see the Fall colours. And luckily there are Autumn fairs and Halloween events all throughout October, with plenty places around Victoria, BC, to get inspired.
For this picture, I inspired by the artifacts and minature trains found at the Saanich Historical Artifacts Society, and the farm fields near it. I tried to imagine what the old Saanichton train station may have looked like. I first sketched out the scene, then used few colour-washing layers in Photoshop to create a watercolour effect with some clean breaks in the colours.

Thanks for viewing my blog and look forward to the next project.