Final Design
I believe it is time to put the final touches on the Roger Reiman mural concept and send it off for review.
I have outlined several of the decisions that have driven our design up to this point. I will complete this design series by talking about some of the design directions that influenced our final concept. In the last post of this series, I included a thumbnail of the original sketch I did, using full color images across the entire main portion of the mural. I will post it again for reference.
Upon looking more closely at this concept we decided there was just too much going on visually with all the images in color. We made a few decisions in order to simplify the visual look and shift the focus of the viewers attention to the main elements of the design.
Originally, we were going to include script style phrases that highlighted major points in Roger's life. We decided to move those phrases onto a separate side panel, that will be mounted to the right of the main panel. We also decided to move the image of Roger's Father flying off his bike, onto the top of the side panel. We decided to switch the far left image of Roger to a different flat track photo, that seemed to fill the space better.
The final major change, was to shift the color of all of the image backgrounds to sepia tone. This decisions was based on several factors. The main factor would be that it simplifies the overall design. By changing all the backgrounds to the same color pallet and leaving the main image in color, the focus then shifts to the images of Roger and Evel and off all the busyness of the background colors.
A side benefit to this change, will be that the entire background will be much easier to paint. Considering that the event only last for 4 days, we can now paint in the background more quickly, which leaves more time to focus on the most important elements of the design.
So, here is the final design with all the changes discussed above.
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