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This picture was more difficult than I'd originally hoped it might be. I've never limited myself to a specific lighting scheme or color palette quite to this extent before, so it was a learning experience to say the least! I'm unsure how many hours I've dumped into this because I worked on it off and on for months - I only recently pushed myself to finally just finish it. Inspiration came from several hours of 80's inspired synthwave music (both off the Drive soundtrack, and more frequently from the band/musician Perturbator) and from the dynamic lighting in Telltale's A Wolf Among Us video game.

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My thoughts towards Drive were negative right from the start. I'd (unfairly) written Ryan Gosling off entirely because I thought he played a shithead character on the tv series Breaker High, and then he blew up in a big bad way for his role in the film The Notebook - which I absolutely loathed. He was not a selling point to me. Then, the trailers painted the film as a generic action drama similar to a Gone in 60 Seconds or The Italian Job, which at the time was a genre that I was incredibly fatigued by. Also, the director was a complete unknown to me at the time, and so I had no basis for comparison to the quality of his work. Lastly, a friend of mine, Jayne, apparently had to do an art assignment based on the film, and that drove her absolutely batty because of how much she apparently hated the film and Ryan Gosling himself. Needless to say, all of this scared me away from actually watching the film for quite a while.

Several years later I slowly began to keep hearing more and more people mentioning the movie and how it's actually super good, and that the trailer was really misleading and "it's an artsy-fartsy character study more than it is a typical action movie". So when I noticed that the movie was on Netflix I decided to finally check it out for myself, and by the time the title sequence had finished, I was hooked. It isn't super fast paced like you would think a movie about a getaway driver would be, it's slow. It spends time on character development instead of just action, and it was actually very thought provoking and artistic. It was a crime drama that I actually felt invested in as opposed to one I was simply watching. Seriously, the amount you learn about a character with no name and little dialogue is mind-blowing!

I went from preemptively hating it (and refusing to watch it) to loving it (watching it two more times and then rushing out to buy it on bluray). I can totally understand the dislike the film gets, because it's an unconventional film in a genre that typically demands the opposite of what this film brings to the table, but that is the exact reason I love it!

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Sorry for the long description, I just wanted to explain a little about my strange relationship with this film. It's not always as simple as "I like this thing, so I made fanart for it."

Description
This picture was more difficult than I'd originally hoped it might be. I've never limited myself to a specific lighting scheme or color palette quite to this extent before, so it was a learning experience to say the least! I'm unsure how many hours I've dumped into this because I worked on it off and on for months - I only recently pushed myself to finally just finish it. Inspiration came from several hours of 80's inspired synthwave music (both off the Drive soundtrack, and more frequently from the band/musician Perturbator) and from the dynamic lighting in Telltale's A Wolf Among Us video game.

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My thoughts towards Drive were negative right from the start. I'd (unfairly) written Ryan Gosling off entirely because I thought he played a shithead character on the tv series Breaker High, and then he blew up in a big bad way for his role in the film The Notebook - which I absolutely loathed. He was not a selling point to me. Then, the trailers painted the film as a generic action drama similar to a Gone in 60 Seconds or The Italian Job, which at the time was a genre that I was incredibly fatigued by. Also, the director was a complete unknown to me at the time, and so I had no basis for comparison to the quality of his work. Lastly, a friend of mine, Jayne, apparently had to do an art assignment based on the film, and that drove her absolutely batty because of how much she apparently hated the film and Ryan Gosling himself. Needless to say, all of this scared me away from actually watching the film for quite a while.

Several years later I slowly began to keep hearing more and more people mentioning the movie and how it's actually super good, and that the trailer was really misleading and "it's an artsy-fartsy character study more than it is a typical action movie". So when I noticed that the movie was on Netflix I decided to finally check it out for myself, and by the time the title sequence had finished, I was hooked. It isn't super fast paced like you would think a movie about a getaway driver would be, it's slow. It spends time on character development instead of just action, and it was actually very thought provoking and artistic. It was a crime drama that I actually felt invested in as opposed to one I was simply watching. Seriously, the amount you learn about a character with no name and little dialogue is mind-blowing!

I went from preemptively hating it (and refusing to watch it) to loving it (watching it two more times and then rushing out to buy it on bluray). I can totally understand the dislike the film gets, because it's an unconventional film in a genre that typically demands the opposite of what this film brings to the table, but that is the exact reason I love it!

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Sorry for the long description, I just wanted to explain a little about my strange relationship with this film. It's not always as simple as "I like this thing, so I made fanart for it."