31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2021:
The Mist
Hey, what's more appropriate to follow "The Fog" than Stephen King's "The Mist" (2007)? For some reason, people sometimes confuse the two movies. What other weather phenomena should I do next? Perhaps, next, I should do "The Haze"? Or maybe "The Light Rain"?
I always liked the Lovecraftian horrors in both the short story and movie (yeah, I also apparently like the adjective "Lovecraftian", which I seem to be including in a majority of HELL-o-Ween posts this year). And, of all the monsters that dwelled in the Mist (again, in both short story and movie), the one that captured my imagination was the Behemoth.
I do agree with King, that this is one of the few times when the movie version does have a better--if more darkly ironic--ending than the work they are adapting.
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STEP ONE: Digital pencils scribbled in Clip Studio Paint on a 2,100px x 1,500px @300dpi gray-toned canvas. Part of me wanted to just do it up as a loose, scribbled, digital pencil drawing, but that seemed a little anathema to the Mist effects I wanted to use.
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STEP TWO: This is about the 2/3's point in the digital painting, with the Behemoth mostly finished.
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STEP THREE: And here is the final image. I used a few layers involving the digital airbrush on a Normal Layer, an Add Glow layer, and a Darken layer. Time to call it good enough and move on to the next entry!
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This was done with digitally with Clip Studio Paint
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