Metallo - The Man with the Kryptonite Heart

Metallo - The Man with the Kryptonite Heart

For no particular reason, here's a digital painting of Metallo.  A number of years ago, I saw a picture of a sculpture someone did with a skull encrusted with some crystal growths coming out of it and it flashed in my head to do something like that but with Metallo--one of Superman's many nemesis with a Kryptonite heart--with the crystals in question being Kryptonite.

I did a quick, digital sketch of it and left it in a folder on my hard drive as one of my projects to do some day in the future.  Every once in a while I'd dust it off and try to make something of it with moderate success, but I never cared for the results.  This time, I figured I'd give it another shot and the results weren't altogether terrible, so here we are.

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STEP ONE:  This is a quick, digital sketch I did of Metallo a few years ago and always meant to do some day.  There is a certain energy (no vague pun intended, given all the glowing lights and such powered by his Kryptonite heart).

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STEP TWO:  And here's the finished one, done in Rebelle.  I'm never sure why I keep forgetting to do in-between steps when I'm doing something in Rebelle... This time I used the "Vivid Light" and "Soft Light" Layer effects to try and get more of an impactful glow out of the Kryptonite.

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Done digitally in Rebelle 7.

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