Gary Oldman, Pretty in Ink

Here's another one of my final ideas for the Little White lies Brief that we've recently finished, I'm really happy with how this turned out, the contrast of  the black and white works really nicely. Compared to some of my other ideas the form of this image is much less structured, because I drew the original image from 2ft away with a stick in ink, the portrait has a loose/flowing feel. I used courier (Again) but this time I drew it freehand in ink onto cardboard then scanned it in, I wanted the text to retain some of it's hand drawn feel, as the shapes aren't all perfect but I still cleaned a lot of the bleed up on photoshop; I think it's worked rather nicely.

The main idea for this image was to make it all a bit of a jumble, because the film's about secrecy I wanted the text to appear coded/embedded, as if it's emerging from the image of Oldman.

Little White Lies D&AD Brief

So here's a couple of finished designs that I've been working on as part of the Little White Lies brief we were given at college; The brief was part of the D&AD student competition, the target, to create an illustration of selected film's main characters. The choices were Super 8, Drive, Tree of Life, Black Swan & Tinker, Tailor Soldier, Spy... I chose to do Tinker, Tailor.. because I'd seen the film beforehand and thought it was a brilliant film, both in cinematics and the plot, there was a lot of moodiness in the film and the main character Gary Oldman was quite interesting as the character 'Smiley'. Because the chosen brief was illustration focused, with the final design needing to be a portrait of the main character and our class were specialized in graphics we were allowed to deviate from the original format and change the focus onto key objects / scenes in the movie; rather than a facial shot.

I wanted to keep the colour pallet quite dark as this tends to be the overall mood throughout the film, so I've mainly used monochrome within my designs, however I may redevelop some ideas to include colour. A key aspect I wanted to include was the use of 'Courier' typeface, with courier being a more computer friendly version of original typewriter, I thought this would work nicely in my ideas, as well as being able to play around on the actual typewriter! The font is a key part of the design because typewriters are often associated with formal documents in the era that the film was set. Overall I've really enjoyed this current project as it's steered more towards the structural / editorial style of graphics that I prefer.