This is a pretty straightforward talking page with the focus on Cyclops and Pixie - the trick was creating a page showing all the numerous X-Men and not spending forever drawing them all - as we only needed to know that they were in the scene not the focus.
The top drawing is the scan from sketchbook that is about 6 x 7" inches drawn with blue pencil and markers.
Ok, here's Rachel's inks for the cover. Rachel inked directly over my pencils with a Windsor Newton Series 7 Size 2 Kolinsky Sable Brush, FW Acrylic Black Ink and Pro White and then erased the piece with a Grande White Eraser.
So here's the pencil version of the cover. It was drawn on 13 x 19" 3 ply Strathmore Bristol Board with a Prismacolor Col-Erase Light Blue Pencil and a Staedtler HB Lead Holder. After this was scanned, I redrew Wolverine's face (as it seemed too small) and added a more detail in the background (to give you more of the feel of a New York Subway and more of lighting/atmosphere) which you will see in the inked version.
Here's the solicited version of the cover art for the January issue of Uncanny X-Men. I will post up the pencils and inks plus the final version of the colors.
Ok, so here's my process for developing an approved cover sketch for the Uncanny X-Men 518 cover. 
Here's my pencils and Rachel's inks for this cover. The artwork is done on 13 x 19" Strathmore 500 Series 2 Ply Bristol Board and the tools are the standard ones. As I mentioned before I will post the final colors for this (as soon as I'm happy with them!).
Here's the solicited (not final) colors for the cover. I will post the pencils and inks as well.
This is the cover for the What If House of M/Spider-Man coming out in December. I only did the pencils - it is being computer painted by someone else. However, Rachel is inking it for fun now, I'll post that up when she finishes it up!
Here's a little sneak peek at how I ended up utilizing it! More to come!
Hey, I got a bunch of sketches to post up but have been too busy with work to get around to it - however, here is one to hold you over.
I will post more pics, etc, but I'm back a day late and my bag, a day later! Here's a little Spidey action to hold you over!
Here's my drawing for the Wolverine 100 Project featuring Wolverine and X-23. The drawing was done with pencil, Pitt and Copic Markers on a blank-cover Wolverine : Weapon X #1. This will be featured in the Wolverine 100 book and will be available for auction. More details at-
All the convention sketches from San Diego are now up in the Portfolio section of
Well, it's always amazing what you see from the booth.
