Unwanted Valentines: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Unwanted Valentines:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

This is an Unwanted Valentine's Day card based on the 1978 movie, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".  Not only did I watch the movie growing up, I even read the book back in the day when I was on a bit of a kick reading classic sci-fi novels and short stories which was turned into movies.

As a youngster, stories involving Body Snatching/Body Replacement/Body Swapping filled me with an existential dread (and still do on a residual level, I guess).

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STEP ONE: Here are the digital pencils--quickly scribbled on the Blue-Pencil Layer I setup in Clip Studio Paint on a 1,500px by 2,100px canvas at 300dpi.  Alas, these pencils look more like Gene Wilder in "Young Frankenstein"--so, it was off to a less than ostentatious start.

I also left the lettering in on the pencilled step, along with the hand-lettered/scribbled "AHHHHHHHHH!!", with a Clip Studio Paint layer effect that puts a black line around everything drawn on the layer.

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STEP TWO:  And here are the digital inks, done mostly with a 7pt brush.

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STEP THREE: Coloring was done over top the digital inks on a Multiply Layer.  The resolution was dropped to 200dpi, so the canvas re-sized to 1,000px by 1,400px.

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Done digitally with Clip Studio Paint on the iPad.

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Unwanted Valentines: V for Vendetta

Unwanted Valentines:

V for Vendetta

It's time again for "Unwanted Valentines"!  Y'know, those super-nerdy/horrifying Valentine's Day cards "normal" people would be uninterested and/or repulsed to get and have no wish to receive.  If you give it to a fellow Nerd, you may actually get a smirk or mild chuckle.  So, good luck with that...

This one is obviously from "V for Vendetta".  I read the comic series as it came out in America in the later 80's, published by DC Comics (yeah, I know it was published in "Warrior" magazine, but I didn't really have access to the series at that time).  It was one of my favorite comic series at the time, and is still in my personal Top 10-to-20 comics of all time.  The movie was generally enjoyable, but the comic book series had more to it, methinks (although, there were a few bits of coolness in the movie, which was a generally solid adaptation).

Also, I do get a chuckle out of seeing Guy Fawkes masks from "V for Vendetta" used in protest movements: Another case of fiction intruding into reality.  Theoretically, I generally support that.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the digital pencils--quickly scribbled on the Blue-Pencil Layer I setup in Clip Studio Paint on a 1,500px by 2,100px canvas at 300dpi.

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STEP TWO:  And here are the digital inks, done mostly with a 10pt brush and the Symmetry Tool.

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STEP THREE:  Coloring was done over top the digital inks on a Multiply Layer, as well as a Lighten Layer overtop.  After it was finished, I dropped the resolution down to 200dpi, so the canvas re-sized to 1,000px by 1,400px.

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Done digitally with Clip Studio Paint.

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