Propaganda Poster: Final

The main idea with this piece was to create an image that was both relevant to modern politics and that utilized one of my favorite quotes by the 19th century poet George Santayana who said that, “Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.” The imagery is meant to draw a parallel between Nazi Germany and the radical wing of Islam (mainly in their equal hatred of the Jews). Every day there is a continuous outcry from the Arab nations to dissolve the nation of Israel and last year Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, called for the destruction of Israel by saying that they should be, “wiped off the map.” The imagery in this poster is meant to remind the nation that we must never allow something as terrible as the Holocaust to happen again.



Going from right to left in the preproduction mockup below is my original sketch, the digital painting, a color overlay, a fabric texture overlay molded to the contours of the sketch using a grayscale displacement map and finally a black desaturation overlay to remove most of the color.