Art Post: Do You Even Lift

Running out of the locker room of the local Fight Club Gym, little Gerald Sweeny found himself in his worst nightmare, naked and exposed. Those two bullies had thrown his clothes out a window and stolen his towel. Two hands were all that prevented him from complete humiliation.
"Hey, weeny! Come back, we ain't got your picture yet!" He had few options to escape. Oh, look, the special weight room for superheroes, and the door is wedged open. He can hide in there. Slipping inside, he slid down to the floor in a corner and prayed that no one would come in. Then came a slight clinking sound. A man was lifting unimaginably heavy weights nearby, giving him a curious look. It's one of those supers. "HEY WEENY, WE AIN'T DONE WITH YA!" They found him. Gerald could only mouth the word 'help' from the corner. The beefy super pulled off his shirt and tossed it to him and then picked up his massive weights again. While Gerald used the shirt to restore a modicum of modesty, those two brutes rushed in and skidded to a stop at the sight of that superhero staring them down. The man lifting three tons of dark matter, said, "Hey, do you guys even lift?" They backed up, he dropped the weight, rattling the room and jostling the door closed. Gerald watched as he walked closer to the bullies. They shook, he glared, and merely said, "I hate bullies." They wet themselves as they scratched at the door to get out and that super didn't even have to lift a finger against them. Sweet, poetic justice.

Do you even lift was a fun painting. I was considering all the different powers I could represent on a card and wanted to do strength. However, I didn't want to just show a hero smashing through something, or lifting a car over his head, I wanted something a bit funny. I came up with the notion of a muscly hero lifting a huge weight. It had to be something so enormous that only a superhero could lift it. This gave me the idea for the title, do you even lift.

As for the art. This one is pretty straight forward. A muscle-bound person lifting a giant weight. Nothing too special. Given the title I decided he needed a bit of snark to his face, though I am not sure I succeeded in that part. I considered putting him in a costume, but thought that it would be more appropriate for the setting to have him shirtless, one of those muscle guys who shows off by lifting weights half-naked. This let me really play with a natural skin tone, something that is a little difficult with costume covered heroes.

That pretty much sums up the card Do You Even Lift. Now, I'm going to go eat a celery stick and cover all the mirrors in the house....