March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2017 - Part 4

March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2017

(Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing)

Well, another year of March M.O.D.O.K. Madness has come to an end.

From the secret journals of Leonardo da Vinci, it's his true version of the Vitruvian Man!  Yeah, a parody of da Vinci's Vitruvian Man seems pretty obvious, I know, but I've never been much of one to let the obvious stop me!

Originally, I thought about including a Leonardo da Vinci-esque designed chair as part of a two-page spread, but since I barely had time to finish this one, I think I'll set that aside until next year, perhaps.

And, never one to leave a good pun laying on the ground, let me say: Veni, vidi, da Vinci!

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STEP ONE:  Here are the scribbled breakdown for the picture, which I did on a new layer over an old book texture/background I had laying around on a hard drive.  I was going to include a faux script to pastiche Leonardo's handwriting, but later decided to leave that out.

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STEP TWO:  Using a 7pt Pencil brush and a 5pt G7 ink brush in Photoshop, I drew out M.O.D.O.K.'s giant head and smaller, vestigial body.  I set the New Layer property to Multiply, that way I could switch back-and-forth between the sanguine color and white, using the white as an ad hoc eraser for the line work.  I also decided to make him larger on the page and replace the planned, tiny fig leaf with a well-placed Kirby Krackle, instead.  Ha cha cha cha!

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Done digitally in Photoshop.

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March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2017 - Part 3

March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2017

(Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing)

It's another submissions to the March M.O.D.O.K. Madness Blog!

This year, I've been trying to do a submission to March M.O.D.O.K. Madness in a different style, and this time it's a pastiche to propaganda posters.

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STEP ONE:  Here is the hastily scrawled layout of the faux propaganda poster.

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STEP TWO:  And, here is the finished piece.  I guess there really wasn't too much to show in the in-between parts... mostly 'cuz I fogot to save them as I went along.  Most of it was boring and tedious digital carving in-and-out between the flat colors used to try and keep a screen printed look to it.  I also kept each element (M.O.D.O.K., A.I.M. Techs, the background, and the lettering) on their own layers so I could work on each separately.

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Done digitally with Photoshop.

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March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2017 - Part 2

March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2017

(Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing)

It's another submissions to the March M.O.D.O.K. Madness Blog!

This time, it's a parody of those omni-present "Draw Tippy" / "Draw the Pirate" cartoons that used to populate "TV Guide" and other magazines back in the 70's and 80's when I was growing up.  The idea grew out of a series of back-and-forth, joking e-mails between myself and Pedro from the March M.O.D.O.K. Madness Blog.  I sent a series of escalating fake test questions to Pedro, with the last one being a request to draw a "Tippy the Turtle" style version of M.O.D.O.K.  **Ding!**  Hey, there's my next idea!  So, I told Pedro to never mind about that last test question and I was gonna do it as my next submission.

I actually used to draw "Tippy the Turtle" and the "Pirate" when I was a kid (about 6 years old or so), and was morally outraged about being too young to actually qualify for the scholarship.  Of course, I never really got around to sending it in, anyways, but still...  It was mostly the principle of the matter.  And my eventual apathy probably saved me from enrolling into their Art Instruction Schools.  Schooling and I don't usually see eye-to-eye...

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STEP ONE:  Here was the quickly scribbled layout I originally planned.  I thought about doing M.O.D.O.K. versions of all three characters from the ad, above--even though I was never a fan of "Tiny".

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STEP TWO:  I had a paper texture for the background and started using the Pencil Brush in Photoshop for the different M.O.D.O.K.'s, and the one in the lower-corner with a hard round brush.  However, I wasn't very happy with the way they the head-only looked.  I tried to update that a little bit by including a little bit of the Kirby Krackle under Tippy's turtleneck, but it was still less than obvious that it was M.O.D.O.K., though.

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STEP THREE:  After a lot of going back-and-forth trying to save the "Heads Only" design, I just gave up and decided to do full-body of M.O.D.O.K., even though it looked a little off from the original ad.  Also, rather than giant versions of the hats, I thought tiny-hats on M.O.D.O.K.'s head were mildly amusing.  I also finished up all the fake ad typesetting in Photoshop, too.  Join A.I.M., today!

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This was done digitally in Photoshop.

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March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2017 - Part 1

March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2017

(Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing)

It's time again for submissions to the March M.O.D.O.K. Madness Blog!

In this case, it is celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the March M.O.D.O.K. Madness Blog, and the Fifth Anniversary of me making submissions to the Blog.  Wow!  Has it really been that long?  Yikes!

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STEP ONE:  Here are the scribbled digital pencils, done with a 5pt hard brush.

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STEP TWO:  Here is the quick grayscale underpainting.  Mostly this was done with a 25pt chalk brush.

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STEP THREE:  And here are the rough colors done on a Multiply Layer and New Layer.

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STEP FOUR:  And the final digital painting was done over a series of New Layers.

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Done digitally in Photoshop.

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