Posters for United Nations Online Volunteers and AHURTOD

These are a series of images that I made for the Association Human Rights and Torture Defenders (AHURTOD)for the promotion of human rights and democracy in Africa. AHURTOD wanted their logo to incorporate Africa as a central component to the poster design. I had little research regarding the project but I wanted the message to be clear and universal. I first tinkered on the idea of incorporating quotes from famous African leaders regarding democracy and human rights in Africa (Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Former President Nelson Mandela quickly comes into mind) but I hadn't gathered enough so I just went on with creating the poster. I also wanted to translate the words EQUALITY, PEACE and JUSTICE of every language in Africa. Sadly, I realized that there were just too many languages in the African continent. Though that would be a great idea for a next poster.









If you want to know more about online volunteering and AHURTOD please visit UN's online volunteering website OnlineVolunteering.org and AHURTOD.org.

Manila Monstars

bOo!

Andres

Now!

The Bunny Who Cried Wolf

Rotoscoping

These photos were taken from my personal files and were done using Adobe Illustrator and a bit of Photoshop. The kids on both of these pictures were rotoscoped (using a mouse! A mouse mind you!) including the umbrella but it was done through Ai's Live Trace. It took me about 4 hours on the first picture (Prusisyon) and about 5 hours on the next (Playing With Light).

I was blown away by rotoscoping ever since I saw Philip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly and wanted to apply it to a couple of images that I have. The result is these two pictures which I hope would soon be followed. The idea here is to have the rotoscoped images stand out without being too unrealistic and still maintain a "natural" feel despite being vector images. I hope you'd enjoy looking at it as much as I had fun doing it.

Prusisyon
Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Playing With Light
Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop