Weirdtober 022/031: Gamora & Nebula
Weirdtober 022/031: Gamora & Nebula 💚💙 – "I tried to kill you. Several times. But eventually, we become close, we become friends. We become sisters.”🤖👽
Don’t mess with the Space Babes […Henry Cavill/Superman is technically Space Babe™, too. 😎 Anyways]. Like Bonnie & Clyde, but Sister-wise [I honestly haven’t watched Bonnie & Clyde a lot…] Maybe more Thelma & Louise [again, probably should research it instead of naming movies/history-people with &’s], these two Guardians of the Galaxaria’s are killer.
So I originally sketched these before watching the newest episode of ‘What if’ [side note: waterfalls of crying at the end… Chadwick Boseman 💔], and I was watching it while ‘inking’ them – and totally had to add a tribute to Nebula’s fantastic hair for a version. Which then I paid a little more attention to the posters and stuff and saw Gamora’s Thanos Armor, and although I was liking the reference outfit from the first GOTG, she just looked so badass in the armor I had to redraw. I also gave Gamora some extra variant-variances – Green hair, orange/yellow eyes from from the comics 🤓
And because Space! Galaxy! – played with some hue/saturations in PS while dropping these baddies in their layouts. And, I did a little minimal highlights/shadows on Nebula’s Platinum-Purple-People-Eater look, and then figured ‘hey, why not add a little extra highlight love in Photoshop; and damn, I think my PS had a mind of it’s own. There’s three “Inner Shadow” layers on her hair and they totally uplifted it to look even more like the show than I had! 🤯]
Also did some different ways of shading and highlighting on this one, so it was a lot of un practicing figuring out how to paint better in procreate. Which is why it took me until today to post. It was almost good earlier in the week, butttttttt needed some final touches that I finally figured out. 🙃 Getting in the groove. What a wild ride Weirdtober has been 😅😂
Kinda like Nebula’s arch in all the GOTG & Avengers movies. Original hater to a superhero ‘Garden’ of the Galaxy 😉 Can’t wait to see what these two continue to do in the MCU. *poet* 👩🎨💖
Leaving you with this little nugget from GOTG2: “Neb: I’m hungry. Hand me some of that yaro root. / Gam: No. It's not ripe yet... and I hate you.”
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