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@PropertyOfALady, I can make you one if you're serious. I'd just need your desktop size.
I'm currently working on a Binder-inspired minimalist poster for Dr. No...
All the gray markers I'd have used for shading were dried out so I had to use charcoal or graphite, and I don't think that scans very well, so it has a strange look to it that I don't care for.
Yesterday I also finished another piece, this time a page of a comic in what would be an adaptation of Casino Royale (the novel). I sketched the layout as I was reading that book weeks back and only just got around to touching it up, so I thought I'd post it. It is depicting my favorite section of the book, where a tortured Bond is about to be rescued by a miracle from SMERSH:
It's not meant to be an erotic comic, no. You can see the tail ends of the carpet beater near Bond's leg in the second panel at the top. ;)
With a knife?!
@PropertyOfALady, I use GIMP, which is a free version of what you'd get with a program like Illustrator or Photoshop, both of which I used in college but didn't really take a liking to. My art instructor and mentor was nice enough to allow me to use my own tools (graphics tablet, software of choice) on all my projects for final grading, which was great.
I could actually make a giant "How-to" collage to show how I made the above, but I basically started off with two separate images of Dan, one with his body in a tux and holding a gun, and then paired that with a portrait of his face I liked (for the shadow effect on it) that shared the same general lighting as the photo of his body in the other photo. When I had those two pieces combined into one figure I began digitally "painting" in a minimalist style over the figure, where the tux was all black, Dan's skin was a light gray and the shadow over his skin a heavier gray. When I had him fully colored and completed the "007" background I had to do a lot of lining up in the design to center him and the logo in a way I thought was striking. Then I cut and pasted into a new layer an outline of Dan and the logo, but painted it red and expanded it so that the images got the red outline surrounding them that you see in the final photo.
All the rest of the job was color picking and finding a way to make the tagline of the piece work with the image in a way that didn't distract or obstruct it. Usually I take a long time just to pick a font to use in my pieces to get that right feeling from the hundred or so I have saved on my laptop, but this time I knew exactly what I wanted and the process was easier. But that's basically it!
An art focused program will probably have you do all kinds of things. In my courses that were focused on graphic design we did brochures, movie posters, designed advertisement logos and stuff of that nature. It's only natural that you'll be doing a lot of commercial or persuasive design, using art to market a particular thing or to entice an audience to do as your advertisement wishes.