For the Circus project I wanted to create something modern, mysterious, and beautiful all at the same time for the viewer. So I made up the name "Starlight Circus" and thought that I could do a lot with it and I did with about 100 layers. I thought adding a seal reminded me of a more moonlit setting so I used it as my main focus of the poster.

1. For the first part of my project I wanted use a Nostalgic Font, background and banner that I thought would resemble something of a star, So I found a static sharp edged banner and a few stars and added the Linear Burn Option and added some flames to them. Next I added reeves around them and found a space picture and directly put it inside them by rasterizing it and then using the paint bucket tool.  I also did this with the banner to give it a luminous look and then I went to options and added a shadow to the banner. I even added a few stars. 

2. Next I found some leaves, flowers and other natural things and stuck them next to a mountain that I cut out into a circle which I then mirrored on the other side. For the plants I found a sparkling gold metallic background. lowered the opacity, and directly grouped the layers together to prevent it from overflowing the lines.

3. Next I found a frame font and circus font and mirrored them both. I group them both and found abstract linage and lowered the opacity to 50%. I also contrast the bottom with the space marine blue and gold layer, and add a font and use many options to make mesh between the background. 

4. Next I found another cool circus font and I got lucky because I was able to find one that look like it was connected to the mountain above the banner.

5. Next I added some modern lines and found few moons to make the right upper corner less empty. I also Used the space and gold layer again and used options for the moons. The background seemed a little to empty so I added some mountains and then flattened by splitting the underlying layer notch making it look ingrained into the blue textured background. I also added more fonts and used a ton of options on those too. 

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Overall what I am please how it turned out and how I weighted out the colors evenly and contrast. This has been one of my most favorite projects so far so I can't wait to see what comes next.