March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2023
(Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing)
It's yet another M.O.D.O.K. submission for the March M.O.D.O.K. Madness Blog! This one is a parody of the Sea-Monkey advertisement which was in just about ever comic book I read growing up (yes, I'm that old). Needless to say, the original ad's drawing in no way resembled the actual brine shrimp you received. I never ordered it myself from the comics, but did see some brine shrimp eggs in a store and got them for the kids a long time ago as part of a science experiment for them to grow. They were every bit as disappointing as I expected (the Sea-Monkeys, not the kids. Well, most of the time...). But, it was good to know I didn't miss much not being able to order them as a dumb kid; instead I bought them as a dumb adult!
That said, I guess one could say the advertising worked 30 years later when I bought them. Well played!
Here's the original ad.
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STEP ONE: Here are the digital, blue-line pencils done on a 2,000px x 2,750px canvas @300dpi in Clip Studio Paint. I had a couple vague ideas for the text, but most of it was GREEKED to me! (Never mind, typesetting joke form my ad layout days.) Most of what I wrote was on the fly as I was getting everything together.
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STEP TWO: And here are the digital inks.
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STEP THREE: And like the Kirby pastiche below, the final coloring was also done with an assist from Photoshop. After the simple colors were done, I applied the Retro Supply Co.'s paper effects to give it a more newsprint look. I then ran it through the Color Halftone filter in Photoshop. I imported the Filtered color layer back into Clip Studio Paint, dropped the opacity to 25% over the copied, non-filtered color layer, and changed it to a Soft Light Layer setting. That way it gave the look of the old comics without it going too far.
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Done digitally in Clip Studio Paint with an assist from Photoshop.
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