🃞 Logan / The Wolverine "King of Clubs" - Digital Painting & Process

" *-koff- As Mark...Twain said...-koff- I forget what the hell Twain said, but I ain't dead.* "

Born as James Howlett in the late 19th century, the mutant known as "Logan" or by his X-Men name "Wolverine" is perhaps the most battle hardened human to have ever lived having fought in every major conflict of the 20th century. And that he lived he indeed owed to his mutation that afforded him with rapid regeneration, physical strength and an unusually long life. Lest we forget Wolverine's trade mark claws made out of bone that were later covered in Adamantium when Logan was captured and used for the Weapon X program. One of the most iconic comic book characters of all time, Logan redeemed himself for much of his earlier deeds when he was taken under the wing of Prof. Charles X. Xavier and then firmly stood on the side of the good as part of the X-Men, well chaotic good anyways.

• This is a digital collage of about 25 bitmap layers. Using my mouse and standard Photoshop brushes and layer blend modes. The cards and textures I got from FusRoDa and edited them to suit our needs along with the Imperial Logo and Tie Fighter. I also tried to preserve as many of the steps as possible for the process animation. I then made the animation in Premiere Pro CC, simplified it, sped it up, added inserts, rendered it as an mp4 video file and then converted it to an animated gif online (nifty!) with 25 fps :)

Category	#FanArt
Medium	Photoshop
Suit	Clubs
Character	James Howlett/Logan
Universe	Marvel
Style	Digital Illustration
Original Artists	Len Wein, Roy Thomas, John Romita
First Apperance	1974

• Gif Source

  ...I'm Wolverine. *I'm the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn't very nice*.

Lore

Wolverine is a gruff loner who had a strong sense of personal honor. He also had a wild, animal-like nature to him and a savage, or "berserker," rage which he tried to control. He is also perfectly at home in the wilderness. He is known as one of the most fearless, brave, and dangerous men in the world, stated by Steve Rogers. Wolverine had established himself quickly as the X-Man most willing to "permanently" deal with their adversaries. He developed close friendships with his teammates Nightcrawler, whose personality diametrically opposed Wolverine's, and Colossus, who often performed the "fastball special" with him. He was something of a father figure to Natasha Romanoff, Shadowcat, Rogue, X-23, and Jubilee. He loved many women, including Rose, Itsu, Viper, Silver Fox, Phoenix, and Mariko. There is only a few people that Wolverine truly trusted, which are Captain America (Steve Rogers), Nick Fury, Jean Grey, and Spider-Man (Peter Parker).

• marvel.wikia

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Process

Here's the animated process for Logan that I made out of the individual layers. This is a digital Illustration with some collage elements so I borrowed freely from established imagery for this one like the X-Men logo and the classic Wolverine icon. The suit of clubs is going to follow an ink/water theme and should portray antiheroes. I'm also trying to make a unique transition at the end of each card. Hope you dig it.

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Card number 11 and the first in the Suit of Clubs of my own volition. I heartily suggest you guys check out what cards of their own the awesome artists of Steemit came up with for the ]Club of Antiheroes contest!](https://steemit.com/art/@zeroooc/sketch-off-contest-edition-2-the-club-of-antiheroes)

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ZeroOoC

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