When I saw the cover to Venom #33 with the new Toxin design, I was dead set on doing it as a custom. Now I was pretty disappointed that the interior artist had him look like a pile of pig intestines, then a little bummed Jin beat me to the punch with his cool version of this guy last week.
Took the spare Venom I bought (since I switcharoo'd a bunch of parts to get one with nice paint) and just gave him a repaint, then resculpted two of his heads so he'd have an unmasked and a masked head. Think he ended up pretty nice and the shading really worked well.
I do still clean up a lot of the shading with washes and hand brushing though. Always upsides and downsides to all techniques.
-JT
Bravo!
If I really wanted accuracy I would've forgone the symbol and just covered him in spaghetti though