Frankenberry

Frankenberry

This was a commission of sorts.  It's a long, convoluted story, involving the purchase of the "King Shark" painting, that leading to a commission, which in turn lead to this commission (of sorts).  As the "31 Days of HELL-O-Ween" just concluded, I thought it would be amusing to paint a picture of the Boris Karloff Frankenstein hot pink and label him Franenberry, and then added the usual accoutrements of the various pressure gauges and Steam Punk-ish goggles.  Ta-da!

I've been meaning to do some more work with Frankenberry and update the Monster Cereal drawings I did a while ago.  Heck, I even thought about doing a 5-10 page comic of a "Monster Squad" style mash-up with the Monster Cereal characters... and may still in the near future.  Keep coming back to find out!

As for the actual commission which started this whole thing off, I'm not sure if I'll be posting it next week, or in March, during March M.O.D.O.K. Madness, since it involves M.O.D.O.K.  Maybe both!  Again, keep coming back and watch this space!  (Quiet, Admiral Ackbar, it's NOT a trap!)

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STEP ONE:  Here are the pencils, scribbled out on 6" x 9" Canson (#140) watercolor paper.

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STEP TWO:  This is the first pass with acrylic paint.  I decided to keep it as monochromatic as possible by using only Quinacridone Magenta and Titanium White.  One problem was that Quinacridone Magenta is semi-opaque at best, and I had been a little heavy-handed with my pencils--using a regular, 2B lead.  If I had been thinking ahead, I probably should have used either a red lead or some other reddish colored pencil/watercolor pencil I had laying around.  It took a lot more work to cover some of those pencil lines.  Then again, a few of them sort of add to the drawing, so who knows?

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STEP THREE:  And here's the finished painting.  I avoided adding Carbon Black into the painting, as I sort of liked the effect of it looking like a Magenta plate from a printing press.  It does make it a bit more challenging to have the darkest value in the painting be about a 70% black in value, but it also made it stand out a bit more for adjusting the gamut of values of the painting.

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This was done with acrylic paint on 6" x 9" Canson XL (#140) watercolor paper.

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