The Bombshellter: Brian Bendis

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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

CIVIL WAR II #1 Variant Cover Step by Step Part 1 Line Art

So Axel Alonso offered me cover I couldn't say no to - the Team Captain Marvel Hip Hop Variant Cover to Marvel Comics big summer event - Civil War II.

So the idea behind this one was to do something inspired by the Ultramagnetic MC's cover.

Cover Sketch

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

Initial Rough in

Light Blue Col Erase Pencil

Staedtler HB Lead/Holder

12 x 18 Bristol Board

Next stage of finishes

Final Pencils

Gave She-Hulk more "back of her head"...

Rachel'sInks

She Hulk Detail

Rachel inks over my pencils with a Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Higgins Black Magic Ink to ink the covers with.

Captain Marvel Detail

Great variety of lines created just with the brush!

Spider-Man Detail

Love how Rachel cross hatches - I give her tons to do because she excels at it!

Ok, next time - colors!

Part 2

Friday, May 23, 2014

3 X-Men books out this week!

Wow, must be a movie coming out or something … 2 covers and 1 X-Men collection coming out this week from Rachel and I.

X-MEN MUERTAS

X-MEN 14 Cover

UNCANNY X-MEN 21 Variant Cover

You can find this comic at your local comic book retailer

http://www.comicshoplocator.com/Home/1/1/57/575

And digitally at Comixology

https://www.comixology.com/X-Men-2013-14/digital-comic/100173

https://www.comixology.com/Uncanny-X-Men-2013-21/digital-comic/100158

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Uncanny X-Men 21 Variant Cover - Step by Step - PART 2 Color

Here's a look behind the making of the Variant Cover to Uncanny X-Men #21 featuring Emma Frost, Magik, and Cyclops

(out in stores now from Marvel Comics by Brian Bendis and Chris Bachalo and Tim Townsend).

After scanning and cleaning Rachel Dodson's inks in Photoshop - we move on to

THE COLORS

The first stage of coloring is to have the art "flatted".

Flatting allows me to choose an area to color at any point throughout the coloring process - which is really helpful when you've almost finished coloring the art and realize the sky is supposed to blue not green etc.

I go in and adjust and correct the flats - especially for things like amount of blacks in color and a lot of the time I just lay a flat color over the whole thing like an orange or a blue to make it a harmonized color palette.

My initial rough in of the colors, done in Photoshop CS3 with a Wacom Intuos Graphics Tablet.

Revising colors and add in the red "X"

I begin turning the black lineart into color lineart and special fx.

Finally I redden up the X.

Detail fo Magik.

And the actual printed comic...

You can find this comic at your local comic book retailer

http://www.comicshoplocator.com/Home/1/1/57/575

And digitally at Comixology

https://www.comixology.com/Uncanny-X-Men-2013-21/digital-comic/100158

Enjoy!

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Uncanny X-Men 21 Variant Cover - Step by Step - PART 1 Lineart

Here's a look behind the making of the Variant Cover to Uncanny X-Men #21 featuring Emma Frost, Magik, and Cyclops

(out in stores now from Marvel Comics by Brian Bendis and Chris Bachalo and Tim Townsend).

This is the creation of the lineart stage.

The first step is the cover sketch,

As this is a variant cover, I was given the simple dictate of drawing Emma Frost, Magik, and Cyclops.

SO I came up with a couple different ideas in my sketchbook - they were

drawn at 2x3 inches in my sketchbook in pencil and Pitt/Pigma pens and Copic Grey Markers and then cleaned up and colored in Photoshop.

I sent in the cover sketches to the George Beliard and Mike Marts at Marvel.

Sketch A was chosen..