It was a privilege to be asked to create the poster and advertising graphics for this year’s Utah State Taekwondo Championship. This marked the 3rd year I had this cool job.
Last year, we had lots of tournaments local to us where I photographed our athletes competing. So I had lots of photos to choose from for the poster. I didn’t want this year’s artwork to be too close to last year’s. I used these two images that I took at two different tournaments.
The image above is of Master Samery Moras sparring (and winning!) at the USATKD American West tournament. I got some awesome shots of her in this match.
I redrew this image in Procreate making them look like an ink sketch and uploaded them into Illustrator to build the poster. I decided some Utah-esque mountains were needed along with a sunset. I like the sketchy blocks of color behind the line drawings. Overall I’m happy with how it turned out.
Of course I also made a couple of additional images for use on socials.
This is such a fun project every year! This year will make my 3rd year competing in poomsae. And this year, my oldest son has decided to get back into the ring and compete in sparring after a three-year break.