Storm Inhumans Vs X-Men #6 Cover Step by Step Part 2 Line Art

Here's the Inhumans Vs X-Men #6 Variant Cover featuring everyone's favorite Mohawked Goddess, Ororo Munroe ..... STORM!

By Rachel Dodson and Me.

Out now from Marvel Comics.

Now for Part 2 of the Step by Step making of the cover art -

RACHEL'S INKS

Rachel Dodson inks directly over my original pencil drawing.

Rachel inks with a Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Dr. Martens Hi Carb Ink.

Rachel's final inks.

Stormawk!

Check out the variety of grey Rachel creates - this is why I haven't gone fully digital!

Again, check out the variety of textures - the lightning, hand, belt and pockets, and reflective metal X.

Artwork is scanned into Photoshop at 800dpi Gray full size. I then go in and convert to Bitmap and clean to prepare for....

Next time, 

PART 3

COLOR 

And for PART 1

PENCILS

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Storm Inhumans Vs X-Men #6 Cover Step by Step Part 1 Pencils

Here's the Inhumans Vs X-Men #6 Variant Cover featuring everyone's favorite Mohawked Goddess, Ororo Munroe ..... STORM!

By Rachel Dodson and Me.

Out now from Marvel Comics.

Now for Part 1 of the Step by Step making of the cover art -

PENCILS

COVER SKETCH

The cover concept I sent into Marvel Comics Editors Wil Moss and Daniel Ketchum for approval.

Roughs were drawn at 2" x 3" in my sketchbook using Warm Grey Copics then colored in Photoshop CS3.

Obviously, that costume wasn't correct, which was good news...

INITIAL PENCILS

...STORMHAWK!!!!

Drawn in Light Blue on 12" x 18" Bristol Board 

Quickly roughed in the drawing making sure the composition still help.

I printed out my rough in light blue on the paper to ensure the composition was positioned correctly.

DETAIL

Really wanted regal, godly, powerful...

I was happy with pose and composition so I went right into nailing down Storm's face.

Detail

With her face correct, I went straight into finishing out the anatomy of the body and new costume details.

Detail 

Really happy with Storm's face - enough of the "exotic" feel with crazy eyebrows :-)

Decided to change her hands - make them a little more "aggressive"

Final rendering for lightning and FX

Couple of tweaks on facial anatomy...

FINAL PENCILS

And the scan of the pencils....

Next time, 

PART 2

INKS 

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Medusa Inhumans Vs X-Men #5 Cover Step by Step Part 3 COLOR

Inhumans Vs X-Men #5 Variant Covers featuring that magnificently tressed Inhuman, Medusa.

By Rachel Dodson and Me.

Out now from Marvel Comics.

And here is Part 3 of the Step by Step -

COLOR

FLATS

The first stage of color is called flats - flatting allows me to choose an area to color at any point throughout the coloring process.

I try to adjust the colors to their medium value or imprimatura - I use this as the starting point for the piece. 

INITIAL COLOR (ROUGH IN)

I colored this on my Cintiq 22 HD using Photoshop CS3 .

Here I rough in quickly all the medium lights and darks on the figures and cast initial shadows.

Using the Pencil Tool at 100% to knock those in.

BACKGROUND 

Creating the background with 7 different colors in 6 color rows...

ADDITIONAL ROUGH IN

I went on the rest of the figure and face and knocked the next lights and darks using the pencils tooling at 70-80%.

I go to the next level of darker darks and lighter lights

RIM LIGHT

 I then added the rim light on another layer

REFLECTIVE LIGHT

 And reflective light on another layer as well

COLORING THE LINE ART

This is the icing on the cake step of the process.

FINAL ART

And DONE!

And for PART 1

PENCILS

PART 2

INKS 

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Medusa Inhumans Vs X-Men #5 Cover Step by Step Part 2 Inks

Inhumans Vs X-Men #5 Variant Covers featuring that magnificently tressed Inhuman, Medusa.

By Rachel Dodson and Me.

Out now from Marvel Comics.

And here is Part 2 of the Step by Step -

RACHEL'S INKS

Rachel Dodson inks directly over my original pencil drawing.

Rachel inks with a Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Dr. Ph. Martins Black Star Hi Carb Ink.

Here's Rachel inking those hairlines!

And what it looked like after inking the hair in the video.

Detail

Still all brush...

I love the white line on the upper part of the glove...

Hair detail...

Rachel's final inks.

Detail

Artwork is scanned into Photoshop at 800dpi Gray full size. I then go in and convert to Bitmap and clean to prepare for....

PART 3

COLOR 

And for PART 1

PENCILS

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Rachel Dodson inking some Adventureman!

Here's an excerpt of a panel of Adventureman! - Rachel Dodson is inking over my pencils...

Rachel inks with a Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Dr. Martens Hi Carb Ink.

Plus some Pro White...

Adventureman!, our brand new creator owned book, along with Matt Fraction is in the works, NOW!

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Medusa Inhumans Vs X-Men #5 Cover Step by Step Part 1 Pencil

Inhumans Vs X-Men #5 Variant Covers featuring that magnificently tressed Inhuman, Medusa.

By Rachel Dodson and Me.

Out now from Marvel Comics.
Part 1 of the Step by Step -

PENCILS

COVER SKETCH

The cover concept I sent into Marvel Comics Editors Wil Moss and Daniel Ketchum for approval.

Roughs were drawn at 2" x 3" in my sketchbook using Warm Grey Copics then colored in Photoshop CS3.

Initial Pencils

Drawn in Light Blue on 12" x 18" Bristol Board 

Quickly roughed in the drawing making sure the composition still help.

I printed out my rough in light blue on the paper to ensure the composition was positioned correctly.

Erase and refine.

Using Col Erase Light Blue Pencil and Staedtler HB Lead Holder.

Refining the figure and detail the mask

Tightening up the figure and adding costume details

Finishing up costume

Detail

Final Pencils

Detail

Scanned into Photoshop

Next time, 

PART 2

RACHEL'S INKING!

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