TRDL - Ultron

TRDL 2011 Series, No. 84 – Ultron [TRDL Redesign]
This was done for the TRDL R3 Jam, the subject being the hardest metal in the Marvel Universe,adamantium.

I started this week’s illustration sketching X-23, but in thinking about the subject, what always comes to mind for me when I think of adamantium is Ultron, not just the ubiquitous Wolvie claws. What I’ve done is a TRDL Redesign of Marvel’s killer Oedipal robot, targeting the return of the character to the Avengers book as a full-fledged enemy, as revealed in The Mighty Avengers No. 67 in 1969. I’ve tried to make this design recognizable as the Marvel character, not a wholesale blank slate redesign exercise, but gave it my spin. A few of the design changes include increasing his size, though staying within the humanoid, relatively smooth surfacing concept which I think was always fitting, given Ultron’s issues with being imprinted off a human. I’ve created an interlaced tiling of the armor plating that comprises his shell, and since I always loved the glowing energy coming out of his mouth, I gave him a chest beam to show more of that. My biggest focus was the head: I love the iconic look of Ultron, though whenever the eyes are drawn all crooked and his gaping maw is shown like an idiot laughing, it drives me crazy. I tried to tone all that down, but still used the familiar tooth motif and make it recognizable. I gave him a set of inner jaws, just for fun. It’s one of two Alien nods in this piece, the other being, obviously, the state of Vision there.
You can read more about the process on this pic after the jump…
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