Development: James Bond

After a  personal tutorial, Id received some feed back regarding the final piece  I originally created. It seemed that a lot of my work had lost direction and I had explored the ideas of a female figure rather than designing something within the convention of James Bond. I had to reconsider my direction. My final piece was referred to 'Horror' rather than 'Bond'. The dripping blood featured on bond opening credits takes a digitally stylised approach, as my homage of this iconic 'dripping red' didn't result in the clean stylistic finish, and gave more of a horror movie appearance.

I took a different approach; I got lost in personal art rather than an illustration design for a specific audience (James Bond Fan Art). I went over my research and looked at different art produced for this project. I went back to the roots of my research and looked at the artist  Michael Gillete who composed the designs for the James bond novel covers and posters.  I state in previous posts " I admire the traditional art appearance in these posters, yet there loud with colour.  They are bold striking images which is a similar feel to what i would like to achieve in my final piece."
This is not something that I achieved after stating my direction. After straying away from the typical bond conventions, I felt that capturing a image with my own personal style but still maintaing a influence of Gillette work would be the best approach to re creating my final piece successfully.


Below are some Experiments I created in result to my new direction. Using the originally figure I composed with pencil and then digitally modified on Photoshop. Editing the colour tint exposure, contrast, hue, saturation and colour balance levels.