Drawings, Paintings, and other bits of art which are (mostly) related to comic books and other pop-culture ephemera. I hope to post something at least every week or two, so check back semi-often.
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2020 Year in Review
By Bizarro
Hey, it's another "Year in Review" by Bizarro! This time, as a parody of the "This is fine" meme.
2020... What can be said about 2020 that hasn't been said by everyone at this point?
My best to all and I hope you all have a Happy New Year.
Here's to hoping a New Year sweeps clean!
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Done digitally with Clip Studio Paint.
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HAPPY MERRY EVERYTHING!
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Here's one of the titular Martians from "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" (1964)...
And Santa from the self-same movie...
Well, because 2020 had to keep being 2020 'til the end, I was putting the finishing touches on a "Merry Sithmas" Card of Darth Talon, when the iPad ate my homework. It didn't do anything that you would expect, like just destroying the the entire thing, or even going back to my last save from the previous half-hour when I had last saved. Instead it chose to save as a previous version when I had the digital pencils finished and only the rough, digital pencils. Everything else was gone. So, not having to start completely over, but just enough back to mock me for all the work which was lost. Sigh...
Sure, there's not a specific date for Sithmas of which I'm aware, but I always presume around December 25th, give-or-take, and I have a lot of other stuff to finish up before the end of the year. To be positive about it, I guess I'll just pretend that I have an early start on next year's Sithmas Card with Darth Talon.
Instead, in a fit of desperation, I grabbed two relatively quick digital paintings I did for my other blog for Figure Drawings (which, thanks to COVID-19, is now just showing scans of sketchbook drawings since May 14, 2020, as the two Figure Drawing Sessions I used to run are currently cancelled. Mother-Loving 2020 strikes again!) I touched up the Martian a little bit and re-uploaded them here, as they kinda sorta work here, too. Kinda.
In spite of 2020, I hope everyone has a (now belated) Happy Merry Everything!
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Done digitally in ArtStudio Pro.
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MERRY SITHMAS
Trilla: Second Sister
OK, I admit to having to go to a slightly more obscure Sith-Adjacent character, just to make it interesting. She was introduced in an appearance the comic book series "Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith", and was the main villain in the video game, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019). Alas, I gave up video games a long time ago, in a galaxy right here. But, I liked the look of Trilla: Second Sister and figured it would be cool to do a Sithmas card of her. And here it is.
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STEP ONE: Here are the digital pencils, done in Clip Studio Paint. It is a 2,00px x 2,791px document at 300dpi. I used the Symmetry Tool to keep everything, well, symmetrical between the two sides.
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STEP TWO: So I can scale the drawing up in the future without having to redraw everything from the beginning, I did most of it as Vector Graphics (Vector are mathematical lines and shapes, keeping their sharpness as they are scaled up; Raster, which use individual pixels, generally get blurry as they are enlarged). Given the lined style I normally use for the Sithmas Cards, I think it generally worked.
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STEP THREE: Several Layers later--each with their own color linework--and we have the finished project. I also imported it into Photoshop so as to animate the card.
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Done digitally in Clip Studio Paint (with the .gif done in Photoshop.
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Dave Prowse - In Memoriam
The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
In memory of the recently deceased, Dave Prowse, rather than go with the obvious, Darth Vader, I thought I'd go with "The Horror of Frankenstein" (1970). Y'know, zig when I was supposed to zag. It was a classic Hammer film (most Hammer films I watched involved Dracula, but they spread their, um, "wings" from time-to-time to include Frankenstein and his Monster as well).
I first watched this when I was a kid, so I didn't catch most of the semi-comedic hijinks until much later in life. All I knew was it seemed scary and had monsters in it, so I was all in. Yeah, I was pretty dumb and easily amused as a child... and as an adult, too, now that I think about it.
Besides, if I know me as well as I think I do, I'm sure I'll be doing plenty more Darth Vader drawings/paintings in the near future. 😀
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STEP ONE: In Painter 2020 on my Windows 10 machine, I created a 3,000px x 4,000px canvas and sketched out the initial drawing using one of the digital pencil brushes.
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STEP TWO: And here's the three-quarter point, done with a series of chalk brushes in Painter 2020. I noticed the left eye was a little low in the painting and corrected that, and shrunk down the ear a smidge.
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STEP THREE: For the last little bit and touch ups, I imported it into Art Studio Pro on the iPad. It has a few extra brushes that I am familiar with using, rather than trying to remember where they are in Painter. Also added some final highlights and shadows. All pics were then exported at 1,000px x 1,333px and posted here.
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Done digitally in Painter 2020 with Windows 10 and finished in Art Studio Pro on the iPad.
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