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Ghastly Christmas Glamour
Well howdy everyone...
And a special greeting to new A Moment of Cerebus Editor-in-Chief/Wrangler/Domain Master/Legally-Responsible-Party Matt Dow! I for one can't thank you enough for stepping into the wide gulf left by founding AMOC blogger Tim W's departure. Truly, thanks to both of you for making this happen, and for such a quick and graceful hand-off.
Okay, to the business at hand!
I've spent most of my Cerebus-related work time the past two weeks on getting more Cerebus in Hell? issues in the can and in the solicitation queue, work that I'll continue once this post is complete...all the while pitching in just a bit on the ongoing FLIGHT Kickstarter.
Right before launch, Dave sent a fax to myself and fellow Cerebus in Hell? stevedore Benjamin Hobbs, detailing plans for, what else? A Christmas in Hell? card, to be completed in time for the Kickstarter launch.
I thought you all might enjoy a peek at the process, as it's pretty close to our work flow for Cerebus in Hell? For those of you wondering how the book gets put together, read on...
Here are the faxes for the exterior of the card, as they came through the fax machine. (I won't picture the interior of the card here, because, spoilers, eh?)
And Benjamin went to work! Here's what he sent me a day later:
The background of the image is a segment of the unbelievable Cerebus in Hell? crowd scene Benjamin created specifically for Cerebus Woman #1, coming soon(!) in, uh, May 2019. Dave also requested flames on the image, a la Cerebus in Hell? #1. After some back and forth, he clarified:
"Flames should be covering the line art. If you can do some Photoshop tricks to make them look like they're IN the flames, so much the better."
I started by grabbing a few images of all-encompassing flames from Google Images, knowing that the result would be so obliterated in the finished version that there would be no legal issues with working with someone else's materials.
I popped one of the flames on top of the whole shebang and started playing with the different blending modes.
But because the line art is mono, the different blending modes that would normally be go-to for this kind of task were not really very useful. Just a bit of time later I settled on "Lighten" as the blending mode, with a lowered opacity.
Here's how it looks--
Well, isn't that lovely? I think what it loses in clarity, it makes up for with a certain... ghastly... Christmas glamour.
Or something!
Want a personalized Christmas Card in Hell? all of your own? Check out the FLIGHT Kickstarter, live right now!
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