Fifty Shades of Grey

Fifty shades of grey has caused a stir worldwide, creating mass havoc in book stores, as one of the first best selling raunchy novels, strictly focused on some BDSM fairy tale about a multi-millionaire Mr.Christian Grey and an innocent university graduate Miss. Anastasia Steele.

For our new brief we where given a list of books to illustrate, and I often choosing children's books over adult was magnetized to the likes of J.R Tolkien's 'The Hobbit', Roald Dahls, James and the Giant Peach and other childrens classics on the book list. Then it occurred to me, I'll challenge my self and push my boundaries, as it is my first year at University, so I have time to make mistakes and experiment, I looked at a lot of childrens books while illustrating at A Level, so I choose the most infamous book on the list.  E.L James 'Fifty Shades of Grey', if this brief goes to plan and I can succeed it will prove I could develop into a capable illustrator, being able to turn my hand (or paint brush) to anything, rather than just being a one trick pony. Having gone from one extreme to the other, as I'm used to illustrating Animals in clothing, but now I'll be painting hard core BDSM scenes from this 'fifty shades of f*cked up' love story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQERFnGvi_A

Above is the trailer to movie, if you don't know too much about the book, that will give you an idea of the story line. I will be staying away from the movie as much as possible, as it is easy to give illustrated characters a look of the actors from the movie.

I will be documenting my research as I go.

P.S This has been a draft since i received the brief 13 weeks ago!