From the Depths of Snake Mountain

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Aug 222012
 

Welcome back to the Wednesday Mash-up.

For the last two weeks we’ve been looking at the heroes of Eternia, this week, we start looking at the villains. As I was drawing these, I realized how freaky some of the Masters of the Universe villains look.

First up, is Sassetor…or Skelesass, your pick. Normally, I try to keep the Animus characters’ natural colour, but blue is such a big part of Skeletor’s design, that I gave Sass a blue body suit. I like the shading and the lightning effects. I don’t know that it comes through in the finished drawing, but the idea is that Sass is wearing a Halloween mask.

Next up is Zoë as Webstor. I tried an action pose and while the pose is alright, I feel that you don’t really get a feel for Webstor’s design. Oh well. I gave her a blue body suit too to try to make it clearer who she’s supposed to be.

Next up is Evil-Nek. I’m starting to like playing with shading to make glowing effects. I like how the blue orb in her staff turned out. Not crazy about the dagger. I used pictures of the Masters of the Universe Classics toy line as reference pictures for the other mash-ups, but Evil-Lyn’s body is a straight-up repaint of Teela’s body and I didn’t want to redraw the same body, so I used Evil-Lyn’s 2000 redesign as a reference.

Now we move on to Deema-lash. Of all the Masters of the Universe mash-ups, this was the easiest casting decision to make. Whiplash is a lizard-man with a tail. Deema is a lizard-girl with a tail. I tried something new with the tail smashing the rock action pose. I like the results.

Last for this week is Wrench-Jaw. Cyran’s wrench is glued to his left paw (his left, our right) so I had to switch Trap-Jaw’s mechanical arm from his right to his left to match-up.

So that’s all for now. Come back next week for the remaining Masters of the Universe mash-ups.

 

 

By the Power of Furskull!

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Aug 082012
 

Welcome to another edition of the Wednesday Mash-up!

I already let the cat out of the bag (Sass did not approve of me keeping cats in bags) on Monday that this week’s theme was Master of the Universe. This set of mash-ups took longer than just about any other set I’ve done so far. As I get a little bolder and fancy with my colouring choices, I’m spending more time on each individual drawing. Some took between three and four hours, although that took some silly mistakes I made which doubled some of the work I had to do.

So let’s get on with it, shall we? Masters of the Universe tell the story of Prince Todrick, who transforms into the powerful He-Fox when he holds his power sword aloft and says, “By the Power of Furskull! I have the power!”

There are only three other heroes who know He-Fox’s secret. Chief amongst them is the guardian of Castle Furskull, the Zo-rceress!Drawing and colouring all those feathers was a pain.

Then there’s Deema, the Lizard-at-Arms. She’s a skilled weaponsmith and mechanic.

Finally there’s Cyro the wizard. Most of spells end up backfiring, but maybe that’s because he needs a new wand attachment for his wrench. I think Cyran makes a great Orko. Looking at him now I feel that his wand arm is off and looks backwards.

Some of you may have seen a preview of Many Masks on Facebook earlier this week. Many Masks may not know He-Fox’s secret, but he’s a valuable ally nonetheless. With the change of a mask, he can transform from a raccoon to a robot to a terrifying monster. Man-E Faces was the first Masters of the Universe action figure I ever got and I was really eager to include him in this week’s theme. But if you’ve seen Man-E Faces, you know that his helmet melds into the rest of his body. That look just didn’t work for Red Rich since he (and all the other Funnies characters for that matter) have such big heads. I almost gave up trying to draw him after my first attempt. I put him aside and worked on the other characters. When only Red Rich was left, I tried to think of another hero to use, but I felt that Man-E Faces three faces synched up so well with Red Rich’s masks that it would be a shame not to use him. So I tried again, forgoing the action pose I had originally envisioned in favour of the at-ease pose show below. After colouring him, I felt he was perhaps the best of the bunch. As for the faces, I used no less than nine layers to do them. Three separate ink layers, three colouring layers and three shading layers. I could then hide and unhide the layers I needed for each face.

That’s all for this week. Come back next Wednesday for more of the heroes of Masters of the Universe and the following two Wednesdays for the villains. Have a good week y’all!

 

 

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