# Critique and advice please **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [April 14, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/critique-and-advice-please/185611 "2006-04-14T17:33:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SelectionTool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SelectionTool](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SelectionTool)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/critique-and-advice-please/185611/1 "2006-04-14T17:33:50Z")
Did an illustration on an old soviet tip.But having trouble in deciding weather I should lose the red flag.Also I am not sure what kind of detailing I should add ![](http://freewebs.com/golfstix/russi.jpg) hope to hear from ya’ll soon :} ---
**Author:** ![haam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a698b9/32.png) [@haam](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/haam)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/critique-and-advice-please/185611/2 "2006-04-14T17:36:51Z")
i see what you are going for… i think there are too many things going on. good propaganda design is pretty minimal. in design AND in color. ---
**Author:** ![Slim\_Hazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slim\_Hazard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Slim_Hazard)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/critique-and-advice-please/185611/3 "2006-04-14T17:49:16Z")
Check out Shepherd Fairey > **[Obey Giant - The Art of Shepard Fairey](https://obeygiant.com/)** > > AKA Andre the Giant Has a Posse. A street art project and an experiment in phenomenology by artist and skateboarder Shepard Fairey. ---
**Author:** ![SelectionTool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SelectionTool](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SelectionTool)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/critique-and-advice-please/185611/4 "2006-04-14T18:24:23Z")
thanks bro. lekker site indeed ---
**Author:** ![wes\_design](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ad7895/32.png) [@wes\_design](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wes_design)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/critique-and-advice-please/185611/5 "2006-04-14T18:29:48Z")
> [@Slim Hazard](#): > > Check out Shepherd Fairey > [www.obeygiant.com](http://www.obeygiant.com) Nice ad… but it seems more like the 1950s-early 1960s American ads that were on subway trains… rather than propaganda…I think they have examples in the MTA museum in… Brooklyn,ny, USA 1. it is missing type(to be honest anything without type is hard for me to accept[personal note])–I don’t get if I am suppossed to follow the women or the flag Were you going for that50sUSA or Soviet propaganda? Remember European design utilizes strong minimalist imagery(like haam hinted at) and coupled with typography that is usually lined on a grid, unless we go into dada And again I am viewing this on dial-up if it does have text on it and I didn’t see it because it didn’t load… I apologize besides that I like it…oh yeah keep the red flag it keeps the eye flowing to the women… and applies good nodes… ---
**Author:** ![SelectionTool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SelectionTool](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SelectionTool)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/critique-and-advice-please/185611/6 "2006-04-14T18:34:55Z")
still a rough did not want to put text or anything else before I got expert advice.Ain’t been to design school or anything , just a guy having fun on his PC.Anyway should I make the text follow the outline of the flag or should I place it somewhere where its nice and straight ---
**Author:** ![SelectionTool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SelectionTool](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SelectionTool)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/critique-and-advice-please/185611/7 "2006-04-14T19:12:36Z")
by the way was going for soviet propaganda ---
**Author:** ![hybrid101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hybrid101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hybrid101)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/critique-and-advice-please/185611/8 "2006-04-15T03:00:03Z")
the flag doesn’t look like a flag at first view:) keep it, but try adding depth to it to easily distinguish it. it looks more like a red background. ---
**Author:** ![SelectionTool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SelectionTool](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SelectionTool)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/critique-and-advice-please/185611/9 "2006-04-15T06:56:43Z")
how do I add depth.Tried using the blending method in illustrator but no matter how many times I increased the steps it just looked distroted and there were funny holes in some places