March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2026 #3

March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2026
(Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing)

It's the next submission featuring that Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing:
MARCH M.O.D.O.K. MADNESS!

This time I kept it relatively simple with a parody of Dr. Seuss's Hop on Pop.  Although, M.O.D.O.K. maybe looks a little too much like Bart Simpson...  Hmmm, perhaps I'll do that one next week if it hasn't been done to Death already.  Well, a cursory search or two didn't show anything much like I had in mind, so maybe.  We shall see...

Visit the March M.O.D.O.K. Madness Blog early and often to see some of the other artists who also enjoy the exploits of everyone's favorite Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing and tell 'em John sent ya!

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STEP ONE:  Here are the very quickly scribbled digital pencils done on a 2,000px x 3,000px canvas.

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STEP TWO:  And here are digital inks along with the Lettering.

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STEP THREE:  And here are the added colors, done on several layers under the Digital Inks.

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Done digitally in Clip Studio Paint.

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Day 30: John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) Mash-Up - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025:
John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)

I mentioned earlier when I posted the original mash-up with "John Carpenter's The Thing" 15 days ago that I was considering redoing it in a more realistic manner.  So, it's the Thing-Thing-Thing: Redux

Well, I didn't quite achieve the full realism I was working toward, but I got a little bit closer and decided to post it as the second-to-last post for 2025's "31 Days of HELL-O-Ween".

One day to go!

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STEP ONE:  Here is the previous posting, which I imported back into Rebelle 8 on a 2,000px x 3,000px @300dpi digital canvas.

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STEP TWO:  'Cuz I'm a little slow, I forgot to include a mid-point "Work in Progress", so here it is completed.  I did keep the merging Thing #1 and Thing #2 logo the same, as it seemed to fit without having to be modified.

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Done in Rebelle 8.

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Day 15: John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) Mash-Up - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025:
John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)

Hey, hey, it's pretty much the halfway point.  This time it's Thing #1 and Thing #2 from Dr. Seuss's "Cat in the Hat" as, well, Thing #1 and Thing #2 that became Split-Face from "John Carpenter's The Thing" (1982).  Sure, it's a joke so obvious that even I made a similar one previously with Thing #1 and Thing #2 as John Carpenter's The Thing, as have many others, of course.  But, since I guess I'll be doing mash-ups this week, I figured I could revisit that well, why not?

I debated on how realistic I wanted to go with this, but since it was a mash-up, I decided to keep it a bit more Seussian in its whimsy.  I'm debating about revisiting it before the end of the month on the opposite side of the scale.

I also thought it would be amusing to have the "Thing #1" and "Thing #2" signs on their chest weirdly merging, as well. 

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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 are the digital inks.

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STEP THREE:  Here are the finished colors, done on their own layer.

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Done in Rebelle 8.

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Day 01: John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2020

 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2020:
John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)

Hey, it's time again once again for "31 Days of HELL-O-Ween"!  Because I'm not all that bright and a glutton for punishment, I thought I'd try again.  And this time, because I knew October was coming up, I intended to actually get a head start--y'know, get a half-dozen drawings and paintings chambered and start from there, rather than doing what I did last year and just start the day before October 1, 2019, and hit the ground running.  Well, that was my intent, anyways.  Funny story, it didn't actually work out that way.  So, here I am, day of October 1, 2020, and just finished my first post.

So, once again, for those of you ghoulish enough to watch and see if I can actually pull this off again (it was close a few times last year, lemme tell ya), or if I can once more pull 31 Halloween-based drawings/paintings from my... hat.  If you see me post a blank panel with "Behold, the Invisible Man!", or a tall stick man labelled "Slender Man", you'll know I done screwed up.

Pre-excuses aside, onward to this post!  First, it's an obvious joke (and you may have even seen it once or twice before, I'm sure), but I thought of it a long, long time ago and by gum I'm gonna use it!  And, as "John Carpenter's The Thing" is probably one of my favorite horror movies, I gotta include it.  There will be a few more of my fav's repeating themselves this year, too.

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31 DAYS OF HELL-O-WEEN:
The Take-Home Game!

 Here are some logos/stamps to use for those of you who want to play along at home!  What's that, I'm just shamelessly trying to start some hokey trend ala Inktober or some similar play-along art game?  Well, I'm definitely not NOT guilty of that, lemme tell you!  Of course, the other part of that equation involves something of mine becoming popular--which I am pretty sure is strictly forbidden under the laws of the current universe as we understand them.  So, we'll just have to settle for the "South Park" Underpants Gnomes version of economics here: "31 Days of HELL-O-Ween" => something ??? something => PROFIT!

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STEP ONE:  Here are the quick, digital scribbles done on a 1,500px x 1,000px @300dpi canvas in Clip Studio Paint.  The reference layer is set to blue so all inks show up as an ad hoc blue-pencil.  I'm old fashioned that way.  And I'm old enough to have used actual blue pencils for under-drawings, so have a nostalgia for them.

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STEP TWO:  And here are the digital inks, done mostly with a 10 to 15pt digital map pen, which I modified in Clip Studio Paint.

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STEP THREE:  And here are the colors. 

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Done digitally in Clip Studio Paint.

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