This was a poster done for a class assignment. Based upon a scene from the movie i exaggerated it and changed several aspects to help make it fit the teaser poster format.

I wanted to encapsulate the character Johnny Depp plays in the film. To me he is laid back and unassuming, using others' underestimations of him to his advantage. At the same time his comfort within himself and pirate lifestyle embodies romnticised freedom, to the point that he inadvertedly seduces two very straight laced characters into the pirate lifestyle.

i used Photoshop, and reference from the film (though this is no longer so similar to the scene that inspired it).
In photoshop i think i only used the Hard edge round brush...
I also used photo reference from the net for some of the individual elements, ie the could and the flag.
My inspiration for rendering style came from the great Craig Mullins, who has done many great pirate pictures. I still got a ways to go on the mullins though obvioulsy