The Bruce’s Decent into Madness & Comic Style Painting

I wasn’t up late last night… You were up late last night.. shh Im an adult I can do what I want…

Okay yeah so I didn’t stop at Hulk last night I finally upped the colours on Modok (he still needs some massive highlights but I grew impatient, no regrets yet. I’m kinda stating the obvious here but the only way you’re going to get better is to practice right? So after I got the base colour right I decided to keep going with the black lining.

All of the black lining on here (as well as on Hulk) has been done with a W&N size 2 brush, which is why its a bit too thick in places on Hulk but I feel I mostly controlled it better here. Its still not my strong point but Im already happier with how its improving.

Now its worth noting that Mike from Epic Duck tends to suggest to avoid black lining the faces and thats the way I intend to go, he generally says the same thing about hair but I am going to do it with Modoks hair but only because his hair isnt natural to begin with and I think it will help keep it looking different.

Help me for this descent into madness isn’t stopping…

Okay all jokes aside this was always one of my plans for Ironman & Ultron, its how it was done by Epic Studios and using actual metals in the comic book style looks weird. So yeah it was time to put aside my stubborn refusal to give in to the style and actually just hobby.

yeah I’m hinting at a bias here which isn’t anything to do with the style itself more so how some people treat others who haven’t gone that route or don’t want to, its not everyone just some people that ruin it for everyone. Also kinda the over use thing, somewhat like OSL is seen so often you tend to get tired of seeing it after a while but during this mission I intend to actually try with both, one of the reasons why I’m leaving Red Skulls final painting until last because if I screw it up I’ll need to redo him entirely… Not the greatest of thought.

So how about we look at some models?

Like many people the pandemic changed a lot of things for me, personally it meant things got so much more insanely busy, followed by a lot of physical and mental exhaustion.

Truth be told thats why this project stopped progressing, I definately have intent to return to it but with 5 current active projects I needed to officially close this one off, for now… Knowing My current active stuff is not being documented I am going to try and start actually doing a better job of that instead of just mentioning things on the podcast.