These are just a handful of the images I have worked from. When I go about choosing an image I will often take half a dozen of these and then select the one I want to work from. When I have made that choice I then go about cropping and brightening and altering contrast in the image. You may see from these, they are very dark and so through painting I have added colour that was not in the original source material.
List of Films/Stills
Man of Steel
Lord of The Rings
Sucker Punch
Kick Ass
Watchmen
Death Note
Bad Boys
Pitch Black
Perhaps there are those more attracted to reality in film but isn’t there something more than just masks, capes and elves, the people behind these titles or costumes are people to respect.
John Butterworth states in Arty magazine (Issue 24, p.23) ” There is an essential yearning to stay young and do youthful things and it is perhaps that attracts people to nostalgia”
We will always have a fascination with the super hero and what they represent. It is the idea of someone to admire. Most of my films are either comic or fantasy. Some are more about the underdog or enforcing the law. They often depict characters in costume yet they are all people with drive and ambition to make the world a better place ; traits which we all want in ourselves. Perhaps it is a reminder that we are all just characters playing a role. “isn’t this what it’s all about, someone wiser, superior and virtous to look up to” (Butterworth. p.23.)
