MODOK - March MODOK Madness 2014 (Part 2)!

M.O.D.O.K.

(MENTAL ORGANISM DESIGNED ONLY for KILLING)

Hey, everyone, it's a second submission to the March MODOK Madness Blog!  This was going to be color, but, alas, I ran out of time before the final buzzer is set to go off later this evening.  I'll just have to colorize it at a later date, I'm sure.

Anyhoo, here is the process for those who are mildly interested...

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STEP ONE:  I did a quick sketch of the layout I was going to use: a forced perspective of his arm on the joystick of his chair.  I did the sketch using a blue pencil on a scrap piece of copy paper.  As usual, I think there is a certain energy to the quick sketch which I almost prefer to the finished picture.  Oh, well.

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STEP TWO:  I used a chalk brush in PhotoShop and began to lay out the lights and darks, as well as form for M.O.D.O.K.

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STEP THREE:  More of the same.  Here it is a little further along.  :-)

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STEP FOUR:  Here it is a little further along.  I decided to crop it a little bit to get tighter on M.O.D.O.K.'s face.  I also painted over the three stripes on the side of his metallic body armor, intending to paint it back in when I was finished with the lighting on his body.  However, in the rush to get this finished, it looks like I forgot to add them back in again (Sigh...).  I also added some Kirby Krackle.

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STEP FIVE:  This is the finished picture of M.O.D.O.K.  I cropped in even tighter on his face, which seemed to increase the dramatic feel for the picture.  I also finished up the work on his hand and some of the metallic shine for his body armor, as well as some other bits and pieces.  As the window of time was closing fast (today is the last day), I called it good enough and sent out the submission.

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This was done digitally in PhotoShop.
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MODOK - March MODOK Madness 2014!

M.O.D.O.K.

(MENTAL ORGANISM DESIGNED ONLY for KILLING)

Greetings!  Here's a submission for the March MODOK Madness Blog.  Every year they open up their Blog to all manner of drawings of M.O.D.O.K.  It's great fun and I encourage everyone to take a look (or, better yet, submit something for yourself).  :-)

For those of you interested, here's the Step-by-step...

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STEP ONE:  I did up a quick sketch of what I wanted to do with a charcoal pencil and some India ink on a piece of newsprint.  I figured an extreme close-up of M.O.D.O.K. would be cool.

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STEP TWO:  Here's a midpoint black-and-white digital under-painting.  I mostly just use a chalk brush in PhotoShop, as it has a good texture and gives more of a natural feel to the digital painting.

I did make one significant change to the planned layout in that I included a bit more of his face, deciding it included a little more expression.  I'm still going back-and-forth on deciding if I like it with more of his face showing, or if I should have just cropped it off as I originally intended.  Decisions, decisions... 

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STEP THREE:  Here's the finished black-and-white painting.

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STEP FOUR:  I used a MULTIPLY Layer to do most of the colorizing of the black-and-white painting.  For additional highlights, as well as some of the glowing light effects, I used a NORMAL Layer overtop in addition to the Blur Filter.  I then sent a copy off to the March MODOK Madness Blog.  I'm hoping to get one more submission done for March M.O.D.O.K. Madness (fingers crossed).  :-)

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This was done digitally in PhotoShop.
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