Final Colorized/Inked Poster Design
I didn't feel the design drawn in Photoshop fit with the design style of the rest of the character art so I redrew the poster by hand to give it the same feel and then colored it in Photoshop. It was also decided to include the art for the three main captains in the poster as well, and several other small adjustments to placement were made to accommodate them.
I originally had the idea of making the entire poster on a map with frayed/burnt edges, but I felt that became too cluttered so I opted for a more simple border edge instead. However, I did decide to keep the crinkled paper look throughout the poster which had the effect of toning down the brighter colors and giving it a slightly more old fashioned feel.
I then added shading to give, what I thought, was an interesting flat "3D" look of paper layers, similar to drawings of the original map concept, but in this case they were overlapping each other or coming out of the image, sort of pop-up book style.
Eventually, I'd like to try updating the captain's portraits to include versions of them with their unique clothing, but at this stage, I didn't want to crowd the image further with the various colors that are on the captain's clothing.
