Original art for SIN CITY (2005), by Tym Stevens.

A digital illustration using Sumi brushes, portraying the assassin Miho (Devon Aoki) from Sin City.

I write reviews for films, and create an original piece of art for each one. 

Review of SIN CITY (2005), by Tym Stevens ©

What’s black and white and bled all over?

Frank Miller’s experimentalism with form and technique hit zenith with his ’90s ‘SinCity‘ books: a neo-noir pared down to a black and white contrast so extreme as to be abstract. The hard graphic style framed hardcore graphic violence, naturally narrated in hardboiled deadpan. Isolated moments of a select color, usually red, put visceral emphasis on specific characters. Robert Rodriguez (the El Mariachi trilogy) was such a fan that he co-directed this film adaptation with Miller in an exact shot-for-shot duplication of the series’ panels and dialogue.

Artwork and Review, © Tym Stevens.

Review on Four Color Films site.