Minimalist Poster

life is strange

Synopsis of The Subject

This poster is based on a story-based player-choice game, Life is Strange. It involves the theme of time travel, and the theory of the butterfly effect in the topic of Chaos Theory, where a small change at a point in time will have significant impacts in the future. The main character of the game, Max Caufield, a photography senior, discovers her superficial ability to go back in time, and used it to her advantage, and saved her old friend, Chloe, from death. Little did she know of the consequences of her abilities, her changes in the timeline caused significant anomalies to the small town of Arcadia Bay, where she & Chloe lived in.

The Process

I used a few reference images from the game to draw the main character. I used the curvature tool, and took advantage of the stroke profile to vary up the width of each hairs. I took a few colors from said reference images, and made compliment colors with the use of hue-shifting (taking warmer and colder variants of the base color) to create highlights and shadows for the hair, and the sweater.

I took advantage of the Liquify effect in Photoshop, and used the gradient tool to make the background of the butterfly look colorful, and chaotic, to represent the nature of the butterfly effect, and to represent the beautiful visuals, and the feeling of bliss that the game presents.