March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2015

March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2015

With apologies to Geoff Darrow and his awesome cover to Hard Boiled #3, here is my submission to March M.O.D.O.K. Madness for 2015.

Fingers crossed, I may try to get another submission in before the end of the month if I have the time.  We'll see how that goes.  :-S

For those interested, here's the process...

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STEP ONE:  Here is a quick sketch done in Photoshop in black-and-white showing the basic layout.  I was vaguely inspired by Geoff Darrow's cover to Hard Boiled #3 (and by "vaguely inspired", I mean I blatantly ripped it off).

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STEP TWO:  I then did some rough layout in black and white to figure out the tonal values, final composition, and begin fixing some of the errors in the initial quick sketch.  Also, "Turn that frown upside down, M.O.D.O.K.!"

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STEP THREE:  Here I used a MULTIPLY Layer to lay down the basic color scheme, and then created various new layers to paint on top of that for the finished color work.  This was pretty much the finished picture, but...

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STEP FOUR:  Then I decided that it worked better if I trimmed the top and bottom.  It seemed to make it a bit more cinematic and was a better composition.  I also blurred the person's head so it wasn't quite as gory and also seemed to add some depth of field to the finished picture, as well.  Hmmm, I'm not sure why I keep giving M.O.D.O.K. a haircut like Moe Howard from "The Three Stooges"... 

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This was done digitally in Photoshop.

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