Joker-Venom Mash-Up

Joker-Venom

OK, I admit it is a joke gone too far... but just ask anyone who knows me and they will attest that when it comes to flagellating expired equus, I'm your guy!  

When I was finishing up the previous post of the Venom-Joker mash-up, I realized I should have Venom's coloration be reversed so he really looked like chalk-faced visage of the Joker that we all know so well.  And, it gave a shot of some extra nightmare fuel to the image, methinks.  Sure, there was Anti-Venom in the Spider-Man comics a year-or-two ago who was a negative image of Venom, but there is also a vague pun using "Joker-Venom", as it the toxin used by the Joker to kill people and leave a smile on their face.

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Here's the black-and-white version.

I took the lasso tool and roughly selected Venom's face, avoiding the mouth.  Nothing too fancy.  Once selected, I went to IMAGES > ADJUSTMENTS > INVERT (also CTL+I), which reversed everything from black to white and vice versa (or should I say vice REVERSA?).  I then cleaned up the remaining areas with a black and white brush until I was happy enough and set about recoloring the face on a MULTIPLY Layer.

Done with a chalk brush in Photoshop and digitally colored.

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Venom-Joker Mash-Up

Venom-Joker

While working on the Venom picture I did below, the smile on his face reminded me of the Joker.  So, why not just throw some green hair on top of his head as a mash-up/crossover of the two characters?  It struck me as both amusing and vaguely logical.  Although, the hair sort of reminds me more of a crazed Beethoven, rather than the Joker.  (It's funny how hard it is to make the hair look correct if the character doesn't really have ears... :-)

Of course, now that I look at this picture, I thought of another iteration of Venom and the Joker, which I hope to post later this evening.  Because I just **LOVE** beating jokes into the ground...  :-)

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Here's the black-and-white version.

Done in black-and-white with a chalk-brush in Photoshop, and then colored digitally with a MULTIPLY Layer overlaying the image.

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Venom

Venom

For no reason, it's Venom in a business suit!

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Here's the black-and-white image.  I used a chalk-brush in Photoshop to draw this out and then colorized the image with a MULTIPLY Layer.

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Done in PhotoShop and colored digitally.

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