Mark Ruffalo

After Chadwick Boseman came out so well just after after Christmas, I thought I’d build a team and use him as the first in a series of MCU Avengers portraits.

It’s going to be a series of portraits of out-of-costume actors but with colour schemes based on their superhero alter egos.  So Chadwick Boseman with his black and grey portrait already fits this remit.  Next up is Mark Ruffalo who plays the hulk, so will have a lot of green in his portrait.

My original plan was make this quite monotone with the two shades of green marker that I have but that wasn’t really working out, making Mark look like he was already hulked out.  So I added some blacks and greys to tone him down a bit.  I even added normal flesh colours to the white highlights.

Overall, he still looks mid to early transformation but could equally be interpreted as still normal but with some impressionistic green tones.  I’m reasonably happy with this.  In fact, if you watch the first Avengers film, I think you’ll find that Joss Whedon did something similar, often showing Mark under green spotlights.

The likeness isn’t really there but there’s some personality (usual story for me).  I also seem to have made him a bit too heroic and good looking, something that his original two comic book artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko also did, so I’m in good company.

Mark’s up for sale at the moment but may eventually end up as part of an Avengers collection.