Concept Artist Shares Alternate ‘Venom’ Design Inspired by the Great Mark Bagley!

While Todd McFarlane gave birth to Eddie Brock and the alien symbiote known simply as Venom back in 1988 (“The Amazing Spider-Man” #298-#300), Erik Larsen integrated the notable tongue design before the character was refined even further by Mark Bagley when he introduced Carnage into the equation back in 1991.

When the character returned to the big screen in Sony Pictures’ Venom solo film, the design would be an amalgamation of all three artists’ interpretations with McFarlane even critiquing and tweaking the design on social media.

Many artists and designers would take a stab at creating the look for the Ruben Fleischer-directed Spider-Man spinoff, but only one would make it to the screen. Concept artist Matt Millard shared his work last month, revealing a take that was directly inspired by the work of Mark Bagley, while also integrating some of the more grotesque features introduced by Larsen.

While the final look is nothing to scoff at, it’s fun to think about various interpretations that may have been used instead. What do you all think?!

Here are a couple of the multiple head studies I had the pleasure of doing for the #venom movie 4 or so years ago . Channeling the great Mark Bagley in these designs – #conceptart pic.twitter.com/mwQbtFqscb

— Matt Millard (@ItchyTasty_) May 4, 2021

source https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3670681/venom-design-based-mark-bagley-art/