Aren't you pretty? JOKING!

This is an experimental poster about animal testing, this is my scanned in picture and then I edited it on my computer using Gimp 2.1 to add colour and emphasise the image each time so I had three stages, after reading my semiotics books I have learnt that there are three stages to a humans perception, I was really inspired by that and decided to make a more literal experiment stages..

1. Thought - what you think when you think of the issue, in this case being Make up testing.

2. Expectations - what your expectations are for that situation when you look further into it.

3. Reality - the truth which in most cases are devastating.

These 3 different stages run a lot in the state of a human mind but are often known as ..

An Oblivious state, a state of Denial and a state of Acceptance.

I am really proud of these final posters although I want to further edit them and add a background, they were meant to be just toughs but I got a bit carried away with them.

I didn't go for the too literal approach as in the lab's where they carry out animal testing they obviously don't have the final make up products like the lipstick shown here, it's all in tubes and containers and are squirted and rubbed into there eyes and shoved down there throats, but I was worried by doing that version that people might not understand what exactly the products were and so I made it a more commercial - visual image.

Number 3 is my favourite because of the over use (not exaggeration) of make up I got to draw, it is really upsetting to see animals being tested on such as the picture below and people need to realise the harsh reality. That is the aim of my posters.