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IGNO: Avengers Parody (Christmas)

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Like my Twilight and Scream 4 parodies before it, this is a parody movie poster featuring characters from the mythos of the IGNOLand forum. In this case, it's a parody of one of the posters for the wildly-popular Avengers. There are two key differences with this parody compared to those I've done in the past, however - the first is that it was me, and not LG, who chose the roles for the characters on the poster...

...and the second is, of course, that it was done in a very deliberate Christmas theme, its main purpose being as part of my Christmas gift to my forum members - the 6th in a series of IGNO Christmas Stories that I've been writing on and off since about 2005.

FROM THE TOP, THEN LEFT TO RIGHT is SG2 - my character, of course, a small tiger with convenient powers as the plot demands and a fondness for chainsaws. The purple creature is Hamel, a demon made of both shadows and fire. Hamel was probably my favorite to paint, because of the interesting color and the fact that there was otherwise no distinction between 'skin' and 'hair' on a demon made of shadows and flame. In the middle below SG2 is LG, a warrior from the all-male planet of Gaylia who always seems to have a prominent role in these posters because he usually helps me out with this stuff (in this case, it was a last-minute brainstorming session that helped us find the story's plot). To his right is Tim, who has recently decided to retcon his character design to have cat ears as well as a tail...so I had to extend his hair a bit to cover the sides of his face. In the next row is Angel, a holy being with a bow of light - I was having trouble mimicking Hawkeye's pose on the poster so I ended up using some alternate reference on her. Then there's xL, the perpetually squinty-eyed, white-haired guy, followed by Bradios, the cyborg. I had a little fun with the sparky effects on his lightning gun, though it wasn't as intensive as the work I had to spend on the flame held by Fenix, the fiery mage. Making that flame was actually a lot of fun, though, so kudos to KazeraVX for the tutorial!! Finally, there's Mr. Bones, the ruler of IGNOLand - it was my first time drawing him in his transformed state, and I'm not sure I did the best job representing the skeleton pattern, but they're not real bones so I figure it's okay. Last but not least is MTS, the elf princess. I had actually done a really good job drawing her hair, when Photoshop decided it would be fun to crash on me X_X; fortunately I had just saved it before doing her hair, but it still meant having to draw it all over again, and it just didn't come out as good so I'm a little bummed about that :/ Then in the background is Katie, riding her flying goat husband and chasing after the story's main antagonist, Cross (though amusingly, in-story, she's not on the team that goes after him). I also threw in a flock of crows for good measure to represent the final 'main' character, PWR, since there wasn't a lot of room left on the poster to work her in.

I followed some tutorials for the fire, lightning, and falling snow, improvised on the background and snow on the ground, threw in an easy moon and even made my own twinkly stars and used them as a brush (though you can barely see them through the falling snow anyways). All in all I think it pulled together pretty nicely, even if it turned into a bit of a rush by the end. The hilarious part is that I got a new Wacom tablet for Christmas...but after murdering my hand and my sleep to get this done, I'm proooobably not gonna want to touch that for another few days ^^;

The poster parodied here was done by themadbutcher. All the painting was done with the help of this amazing Photoshop brush by bananapanik which I will probably continue to use in future works because I love it. Reference for Angel's pose by SenshiStock. All the characters depicted are original, but with the exception of the SG2 Tiger (and Cross, I guess, though he's just a Santa recolor), they are all belong to their respective members on the forum. All drawings and other fanworks made with them are done with permission for entertainment purposes only.
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