Sunday, February 13, 2011

X-Men #7 Cover Step By Step 1



OK, the cover of X-Men #7 featured the X-Men in New York with Spider-Man as the guest. The only other rule I had was to include the "X" logo in the sky.

Step 1 - Working in my sketchbook, I knew just about what I wanted, but I had a couple slight variations in mind. Drawn with Pencil, Pitt and Copic Markers at about 8 x 9".

Step 2 - Scanned that page and in Photoshop rearranged the images to the two versions I had in mind and did a little color versions as well. This is what I sent into Marvel. They chose B.

Step 3 - So went straight to full size 13 x 19" Strathmore 2 ply bristol board and using Col Erase Light Blue Pencil and HB Staedtler Lead to rough in the cover as seen here!

Next - the pencils!

TD

6 comments:

  1. Awesome stuff! Very Insightful Mr Dodson!

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  2. Putting Spidey upside down was an inspired choice. Really kicks the design into high gear.

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  3. love your style.
    for me its so sad that i live in germany,
    so i probaly never get the chance to meet you live!! ;o((
    keep doing your best.

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  4. 13x19 is pretty large. Do you normally do that size for covers or for all of your pencils. (been a while since I've drawn on comic book paper, that's probably the normal size lol)

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  5. Thanks for your comments!

    RE-Size- I draw my pages at 11 x 17, and most of my covers at 13 x19.

    TD

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