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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