Goldeneye Update

This piece is almost finished now. There's a lot more going on creating a more flow and movement around the image. I think I'm going to start on a new poster for another Bond film and then come back to this one later with some fresh eyes.

This has been one of the most exciting projects I've set myself recently so I want to crack on with more posters. I keep getting lots of ideas for different films and tv shows which could be made into great iconic posters. It's also good flexing my digital drawing muscles and seeing my work develop.

Goldeneye Poster Layout

I've made a some major additions to this piece now and it's moving fast towards a final poster. The main elements are all there now. Natalya (bottom right) and Orumuv (wearing the hat) could do with some touch ups on the clothes. I'm considering adding another character but when I think ahead to other posters in the series I might struggle to find 6 major characters to fill a poster. My other option would be to add more vehicles and possibly some scenery like the Severnaya radar dish. It feels like there is too much space going on and that I could be showing off more of the film. Working on this piece makes me wonder how Drew Struzan makes it look so easy?

Brosnan Finished

Finished up this portrait today. Having a few days off from it helped me find and alter the glaring errors. I'm happy that this resembles Mr Brosnan enough to move on. I want to use this piece as a base for my intended poster. I'll stick to black and white for now to keep the focus on composition and layout. I'm excited to get working and see how this all turns out. If it's successful I'd love to make this into a series of posters and maybe even extend into other films.

Brosnan Bond Sketch

Spent a few hours working on this portrait of Pierce Brosnan's Bond. I hope this will be a focal part of the Goldeneye poster I have been working on over the past few months. As you can see, I still haven't quite caught Brosnan's face. I spent all the time this evening working and reworking areas trying to get everything in proportion. The chin was a particularly difficult area and was causing a lot of problems until I got that sitting right. The face may still be too long but I need to go away and look at this piece with fresh eyes tomorrow to see what else is throwing it off.

I do intend to colour this piece but I decided to work in black and white for now to help work out the proportions and shadow.

Goldeneye Ourumov Portrait

I came across some beautifully painted comic covers this evening that had a hand painted quality to them. After a quick search I found the artist actually created them using photoshop. This inspired me to have a go myself and create another portrait for the Goldeneye poster. This is by far my best piece using the graphic tablet yet. I'm still experimenting with it and finding my style so this portrait doesn't really fit together well with the otehrs. I'm running out of people to paint, I think Natalya is the last person I want to feature. After that I'll have to attempt the vehicles which I'm quite weak with. It will be good to get some practice in and develop my drawing in other areas.

Goldeneye Sketches

The top image are sketches I drew yesterday. Haven't drawn in a while so it took a while to warm up. The second image shows my sketches from today. The image of Boris and Natasha came out great. These images are the first two pages of a new A3 sketchbook. I hope I can continue with this quality and fill it up with even greater drawings. I don't want it to be a portraits sketchbook so I'll be drawing other things too in the future.

As a side note, the camera quality is really poor. I'd love to upgrade to a digital SLR camera at some point. It's an expensive purchase though!

Xenia Portrat

This is another part for my Goldeneye poster. I feel like my tablet skills are starting to really show signs of improvement with each new portrait I create.

Goldeneye Portraits Continued

Been working on the faces trying to get some life and texture into them. I think they are almost finished. Just need to the get the shoulders of the suit sitting correctly and started creating the other pieces for the poster. I'm looking forward to seeing this come together.

Bond and Trevelyan sketch

Continuing to work on this piece. The portraits feel very stiff, I need to work on my technique and perhaps work with some custom brushes to give the skin tones more texture. I did want a stylised look but I feel I'm not getting the same life I would normally achieve from a pencil sketch.

Bond Sketch

A work in progress for my intended poster. Experimenting with styles. I think I'll probably end up redoing a more stylised version.

Goldeneye Sketches

I've been doing a lot of work on the computer lately so I felt like it was time I got my sketchbook and pencil back out.

I've always been a fan of hand painted movie posters, particularly those by artists such as Drew Struzan, Robert Mcguinness and Richard Amsel. They created some of the greatest movie posters ever. Unfortunately the hand painted poster is a lost art with companies always using photoshop to advertise modern movies.

The James Bond films started out using amazing hand painted posters but moved onto digital photography for the later films.

I'm trying to recreate the classic poster look for one of my favorite Bond film's, Goldeneye. Above are some of my preliminary sketches where I'm looking at all the elements I want to use in the final image.

Just as a side note, these sketches were the last pages of this particular sketchbook. It only took me a year to fill it up! Maybe I'll go back to an A3 size for my next book.