Hela 2021

 TNT showed Thor Ragnarok for a few days, and I remembered how much I enjoyed their depiction of Hela. I'm still learning the tablet and brush options, so why not?

I made a very loose sketch on paper and based the digital work on that.

I wanted a certain angle on the body and grabbed references including stock images, action figures, and selfies.

I smooshed them together into this.

I drew over that, basing the costume on Alan Davis' Hela costume.

I wanted the Bifrost and death clouds and something death-y like a skull. Googling and my own skull model helped a lot. The MCU Bifrost tends to flow like water in Endgame, so I wanted that movement.

And after a lot of hemming and hawing and Don Music head bashing into my keyboard, I stopped working when it looked like this.

This print will be available at my upcoming online event, which I will speak more about soon.

The Odinsam

 I wanted something new to draw, and, yesterday, I saw this.

 

 

And I got to work.

 

 

 

I wanted to make an image on the tablet from the ground up, but I'm still learning how to draw on it. I used the copious reference images online from LOTR and Marvel and Frankensteined the elements. This is much closer to what I normally make in Illustrator, but it was all done in Photoshop.