I thought the next step would be to research Drive in more detail (not that I haven't seen it enough already) I want to look at the film itself, various poster artwork, stills from the film, DVD covers, the soundtrack, reviews and interviews... I think this could help understand the character more, maybe giving me further ideas I could incorporate into the artwork...
Firstly I found this interview with the director and struck gold! My superhero idea has come to life with this!
Superhero idea it is then!
Most of the poster art and imagery focus on the main character just like the brief for LWL which is good for inspiration....
The image below is very powerful, the lighting on the character enhances the power of the image. It is so strong with the blank, quite tough look on his face you can't really tell what he's all about, as in the film, where he doesn't actually speak for the first half an hour or so....
The type almost looks as though it has been driven over with rough tyre marks. The colour of the type matches the jacket of the character and the glowing streetlights in the background, all this together against the blackest of black darkness of the background work perfectly...
The iconic scorpion jacket.... There are a lot of shots like this in the film and I'm thinking it could work well creating an illustration from behind, a bit different to the usual face portraits of LWL covers. The title on this poster is used on most of the poster artwork, when I think of the film I immediately think of this hot pink, script typeface, the neon type style is very fitting with the film, very American, very retro...
The below poster is one of a series with each one showing different portraits of all the characters. I look at this and think cheese, it's too much, it doesn't convey the 'coolness' of the film. Again using the retro script typeface....
I love the image used in the poster below. It shows the driving gloves which have many a close up in the film. With the characters eyes looking to the left, it makes the viewer think what is he look at, what is he worried about...
I have never come across the below poster before. It's definitely very retro, very in keeping with the hot pink typeface of Drive. It seems a little too graphical and digital for the film though, I think the film has such amazing cinematography that when stills from the film can be used, they should be.... Doing this brings a lot more feeling and emotion to what the actual film is like....
Although the below doesn't seem to be a poster I imagine that it was made for one, as it is so over the top! I think it looks too airbrushed and fake to convey the film properly. Although it is one of the only ones that actually shows any of the outside of the cars...
The below is a memorable still from the film, it shows the love interest and her son in the background, I would like to bring her into the design in some way, although it does say to do the main character so I don't think this would be allowed...
The below still is Ryan Gosling dressed in the the mask which is kind of his alter ego in the film, I think this could definitely be incorporated in the illustration in an interesting way, I like my idea of putting it in the reflection of the driver in someway. I think this would be ok, as it's not a separate character, they are as one...
The scorpion imagery from the infamous jacket.... I will be using this in my design 100%, it's the first thing I think of when thinking about the main character...
The below titles typography as mentioned above, I would like to edit this slightly to fit in with the artwork I create, but not alter it too much as I think the type is memorable to the film...
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