Unwanted Valentines: Collected

Happy Valentine's Day!

Or, as I like to call it, "Happy V.D."  

Just because I've been doing these over the course of a several years, here are all the "Unwanted Valentines" together in one post, for convenience.  And it gives me a cheat for an extra post this month so I don't look like a completely lazy bum!  So, it's a two-fer -- everybody wins!

(Click on a picture to embiggen!)

Face-Hugger -- By far my most popular "Unwanted Valentine".  Last year, it was even re-posted on Drowning Pool's Facebook page.  So, that was cool!

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Two comic book based Valentines: Marvel Comic's Man-Thing and DC/Vertigo's "Flex Mentallo".  These were originally done for the iFanboy website as part of one of their contests.  I won a couple graphic novels out of it.  Hooray!

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Two from John Carpenter's "The Thing": "Split-Face" and "Crab-Head"

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Based on "Mars Attacks", of course

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Blaine the Mono from Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series, mashed-up with "The Simpsons" Ralph Wiggum's "I Choo-Choo-Choose You" card.

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The Pale Man from "Pan's Labyrinth"

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 It's Roy Batty and Pris from "Blade Runner"

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And Immortan Joe from "Mad Max: Fury Road" being all creepy and stalkery

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Also, if you will forgive a little bit of cross-promotion, my thanks to Mike from Xombie-DIRGE and Jim from JimSmash!.  They were kind enough to feature posts of my work on their Blogs, and I thank them! :-)

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Unwanted Valentines: Immortan Joe

Unwanted Valentines:

Immortan Joe

And, an alternate one:

These Unwanted Valentines feature Immortan Joe, from "Mad Max: Fury Road".  I really liked the movie: it was visually arresting, moved along at a good clip, and had lots of good action pieces.  The story was very simple (we're driving this way, now back again), but I don't see anything wrong with that for a fun, action movie.  And, I have to say that 70-year-old director George Miller's visual sense in the movie was so dynamic and amazing, it seemed better than most directors half his age.

For the Valentines, I wasn't sure which wording I preferred, as both seems creepy enough to fit the character.  So, when I came to that fork in the road, I took it and did both.  Also, I didn't have time to do a second Immortan Joe drawing before Valentine's Day, so I just used the same one; I feel a little guilty about that.  Oh, well.  C'est Le Vie and all that jazz.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the quick, digital pencils on a 1,000px x 1,400px canvas at 200dpi.

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STEP TWO:  Digital inks done mostly with a 5pt. Hard Round brush.

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STEP THREE:  Colors were done over a Multiply Layer, and the lettering was added.

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Done digitally in Photoshop.

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Unwanted Valentines: Pris

Unwanted Valentines:

Pris

Another Unwanted Valentine based on "Blade Runner", in this case Priscilla Stratton, A.K.A. "Pris".  She was labelled as a "Basic pleasure model" on the screen used to show Deckard the escaped replicants, and activated on February 14, 2016.  So, Happy Birthentine to Pris?  Ugh, there's a portmanteau/neologism I guarantee will go to this paragraph and no further.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the digital pencils on a 1,000px x 1,400px canvas at 200dpi.  Again, this was just as a quick sketch to put in the general layout.

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STEP TWO:  Digital inks done mostly with a 5pt. Hard Round brush.

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STEP THREE:  Colors were done over a Multiply Layer, and the lettering was added.

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Done digitally in Photoshop.
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Unwanted Valentines: Roy Batty

Unwanted Valentines:

Roy Batty

I'm a HUGE fan of "Blade Runner"--the movie, more so than the book, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", by Philip K. Dick.  The book is pretty good, but the movie just pulls my attention every time and I find it superior to the novel it's based upon.  I find it mildly ironic, since I almost always prefer the book to the movies.  For example, to use another Philip K. Dick work, I don't care for "Minority Report" the movie because the book/novella was perfect in the way it dealt with the contradictions made by the Precogs, and had a sense of paranoiac dread that I thought was lost in the transition to screen.

I missed Roy Batty's "birthday" last month (activated on January 8, 2016 according to the movie), so here's a Valentine about him, instead.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the digital pencils on a 1,000px x 1,400px canvas at 200dpi.  Just a quick sketch to put in the general layout.

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STEP TWO:  Over the digital pencils go the digital inks, don'cha know.  Mostly done with a 5pt Hard Round brush.

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STEP THREE:  On a new Multiply Layer I put in the colors, and finished it off with the lettering featuring a fairly terrible pun.

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This was done digitally with Photoshop

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Unwanted Valentines: Pan's Labyrinth

Unwanted Valentines:

Pan's Labyrinth

It's time again for those heart-shaped blights to your eyes, Unwanted Valentines!

In this case, it is based off The Pale Man from "Pan's Labyrinth".

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STEP ONE:  Here are the digital pencils.  I just did a really quick, loose digital drawing.

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STEP TWO:  And the digital inks done mostly with a 5 point Hard Round brush.

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STEP THREE:  And here is the colored image.  I then added lettering, above, and called it DONE!

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This was done with Photoshop.

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