Humphrey Bogart for "VIASAT MAGAZINE"

These drawings were made for "Viasat Magazine", to illustrate an article on Hollywood's changed attitude towards smoking on film. The AD wanted to use Bogie - once tobacco's poster-boy in Hollywood - to show the detrimental effect of all those years of smoking on celluloid (and in real life). The idea being that we would see the young, healthy star alongside how he looked shortly before his death. My sketches looked like this:

The AD thought they were fine, but stressed that I needed to take the old Bogart further; he was dying of cancer, but I had drawn him old & craggy as opposed to old and sick. I worked up the artwork in pencil - we wanted a slightly retro, old-school film poster feel to them so I didn't want them looking too flashy. I scanned the drawings into my Mac and coloured them up in Photoshop:

The AD thought Bogart still wasn't looking sick enough, so I aged him further and gave him a green tinge in the final version, with bloodshot eyes: