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After nineteen artworks, I thought some readers might want to know how I go about churning out the drawings. I'll use the development process of the BR retro poster as an example.
I recently bought a couple of 70's SHAW BROTHERS Hong Kong swordsfighting movie dvds and each dvd showcased the original hand-painted poster artwork of the movie. Like those old STAR WARS movie posters, they had a certain quality and charm. Suddenly, my thoughts went like:"What IF Kinji Fukasaku filmed BATTLE ROYALE in the 70s?" Hence, the decision was made to create a BR retro poster and I immediately made some sketches to flesh out my ideas:
The idea I had was to show the protagonists, Nanahara Shuya and Noriko Nakagawa in distress. The main 'villain', Kitano, was positioned prominently in the background wearing that menacing smile or grin on his face. Scenes of combat and explosions surround the couple to depict the danger they are in and also to highlight the level of violence which this movie promises to deliver. As you can see from the sketch of the female student in an old style school uniform (the kind worn by Ryoko Hirosue in POPPOYA, RAILROAD MAN) and that Vickers machine gun with crosshairs at the bottom, I initially wanted to set BR in the 40s, after World War II. Even Kawada's bandanna bears the Japanese flag to make him resemble a Kamikaze pilot of sorts. After all, the novel is set in an alternate timeline and I thought I could weave in some creative liberty.
Some sketches of Japanese soldiers, building on the idea of BR being set immediately after WWII. But after some consideration, I decided the junk the WWII 40s idea and sketched out my blue-print for the retro poster:
With the sketch above as reference, I went on to draw the actual poster artwork in pencil. |
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