Oh no. I seemed to have fallen into some sort of rabbit hole. The next set is some 1930’s sort of thing? Sort of got thinking about rubberhose animation and well… This is the weird thing that came out of that.
Basically I tried to redo the Phyrexian Praetors in old cartoon style.
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The first one I did was Sheoldred, felt decently Betty Boop-y. Had a lot more trouble with the horrible spider butt with a very John Dillworth-y kind of smile.
Got into something of a groove and did Vorinclex next. And the big galoot felt very Bluto/Sinbad. The skull isn’t as animalistic as his real face is, but I decided it was a good time to reference the Skeleton Dance.
The third one was Jin-Gitaxias, and he was just a delight. If a little odd to figure out. Won’t lie mostly vibing off of “The Ghost of Stephen Foster” here. And maybe an old cartoon vulture or two. Went with an accordion spine leading into baggy pants.
Definitely the easiest one I wound up doing. Elesh Norn just wound up having some Olive Oyl proportions. Long limbs, offbalance noodly proportions to match her cumbersome headwear.
Urabrask was definitely the one I struggled the most with. Mostly because even in his main card art, its hard to tell what’s going on with him. Plus there isn’t exactly much that “looks” like him in old cartoons. Initially considered going a dragon route, before stumbling upon Andy the Anvil (Skullgirls) and just giving him weird boat smokestacks and a mouth that vaguely resembled a cow-catcher. Sort of get the industrial vibe.
And yes… there is a color version (of the characters at least). By the time I was working on the background I had thrown on Black & White filter, and was just trying to use more oil-painty brushes to keep it separate from the characters.
The background was meant to be an afterthought, I swear. Maybe I’ll try and put a color version of that together too.
Anyways off I go… Doing my various other art projects.
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