62. Postcard (Front)

For the front of the postcard, I didn't want any information about the film itself or contact information, only the picture and director name. 

After thinking about the postcard, I decided to go with the darker route that's closer to what the film will look like. It also gives an idea on what the Hanahaki Disease is, slightly. 

The picture for the postcard.

The card itself is meant to be extremely dark and the red lettering of "Chrysanthemum" would pop out more and be more eye catching. I added a layer of light opacity over the picture of me to darken it along with the background. However, I wanted the flower and blood to pop out a little bit more, so I lightened the layer around those two items to be a little bit brighter. 

Version one of the postcard.

One thing I didn't like was the fact that the picture is cut off at the bottom, but I wanted the title to be at the bottom. I decided to look on how other postcards tackled that idea. 

This postcard uses an entirely different color to separate the character from the bottom. 

I tried to add some more greenery to the card, since there wasn't much and the flowers removed all the dead space around the character. The 'vines' don't completely remove the idea, but I do think it helps remove that little annoyance.  

The addition of the 'vines'.

To try to make the picture more seamless with the background, I erased the bottom of the picture to fit with the vines.

There was still so much dead space, so I added more flowers of a darker red to fill space. 

I wanted to have my name in the front somehow. I had different versions of the lettering in multiple places and colors, until I decided to put it right above the title and in a lighter green, that makes it still visible, but not as eye catching as the title

The version with the red lettering.

The version with the green lettering.

There wasn't much more to add, other than filling dead space, so decided to add leaves to the vines.

The stem of the flower was also a little bit off/showing the wire, so I decided to complete it off.

The finished postcard (front).

I absolutely love how it turned out. There's a cartoony feel, with the limited shading, but having the real photo gives a serious idea on what the film would turn out to be. So in some sense, I still have a postcard that fools the audience and get the dark themes as well.