Grave Bedpost

Even homemade comic book villains with bedposts for arms deserve their day of infamy. 

"Grave Bedpost" is what I call this one. Back story? It's every bit as ridiculous as one could imagine given the caption, but I prefer to leave it as somewhat of a mystery for now. It's funnier to me that way.

I used some basic watercolor tools and digital airbrushing to do most of this. I was aiming for an eerie fog to mask most of the background and am pleased with the result. It took me a while to get the right color and lighting to give it that reflective glow in the darkness. I was also debating on whether or not I should add in blades of grass, but now that I've done it, I'm happy that I did, as it really makes the ground look less flat and murky.

I usually don't focus on backgrounds so much (as you've probably noticed in my previous blogs) but for this one, I started out with just the background first and added the grave afterwards. The final touch was the fog. It was all done in one layer, with the exception of the text on the grave, which I converted to an image and dropped onto the main canvas layer so I could "age" it a bit on the stone.