Day 01: This Island Earth (1955) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025:
This Island Earth (1955)

Well, here it is, the start of my 7th year doing "31 Days of HELL-O-Ween".  Over the years, I've done nearly 200 paintings, drawing, and assorted whatnot with various Monsters and their Movies.  This year, I'm hoping to mix stuff up a bit more.  I have plans for the first dozen pictures that will be monster-related, but not from particular movies, per se.  And, after that, I really don't have much of a plan for that, either.  Not that I really had much of a plan in the years prior, of course.  But, this time, much more so!  Or is it much less so? 

Anyhoo, this year I will probably play around a bit more with the format and subject matter, just sort of mixing stuff up some more than usual.  Will I post something all 31 days, as I have in the past?  Who knows?

I'm not sure why I started doing the first and last posts of "31 Days of HELL-O-Ween" with myself as various monsters... well, aside from being a solipsistic egomaniac (hmmm, what's the opposite of an oxymoron?  A tautological redundancy, perhaps?). Anyhoo, this one is a Metaluna Mutana (Or, "Myoo-tant", as pronounced in the movie) from "This Island Earth (1955)".  The Metaluna Mutant was the symbol for Sci-Fi when I was young, and the pictures of the Mutant fascinated me.  It was for a movie that I had never seen at that time, but sorely wanted to.  It was a long time before I caught the movie on a Weekend Monster Matinee on TV.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the quick, digital pencils in Rebelle 8 on a 2,000px x 3,000px @300dpi digital canvas.

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STEP TWO:  And here is the first pass with the layout and coloration.

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STEP THREE:  And here's the finished digital painting, done with a lot of back-and-forth, blending, and general reworking until everything is done.  I then imported it into Clip Studio Paint to put in th word balloon and logo.

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Done in Rebelle 8 with an assist from Clip Studio Paint.

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